In summary: The Raven King is much better than its precedent, and if you like messy, gritty novels and characters that are so morally grey their souls are almost black, then you will love this book. The Foxes are a fractured mess, but their latest disaster might be the miracle theyve always needed to come together as a team. While I still do wish that there was more actual gameplay, I understand that it's hard to write play-by-plays, and that this series isn't really about the game at all, but the players strange and, sometimes confusing, web of lies and relationships. Nora Sakavic presents the second book in the All for the Game series. As Neil learns more about them, so does the reader, but you also learn a lot more about Neil, and maybe he isn't quite the guy you thought he was. None of them are perfect, and they're all messier than before, but that's what makes them so interesting. This is the book where you start to love all those weirdos you met in the first one, and their character types begin to feel more human and real. The Raven King takes everything that was good about The Foxhole Court and heightens it: the stakes are raised, everything is more intense, and the characters are all so much more. I need to stop judging series by their first novel because the second one is always infinitely better.
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