Reviews with content warning for Blood - The Sunshine Court

Quand je vous dis j’ai sauté sur le livre, j’ai sauté sur le livre des sa sortie hier.
La saga m’a marquee au fer rouge (petite ref glauque) et j’avais entendu dire qu’une suite devait arriver sur Jean.
J n’avais aucun souvenir de Jean, un tout petit souvenir de Jeremy (j’ai lu il y a longtemps), j’ai du retourner sur les sites de fandom (très complets omg) pour trouver toutes les infos.

Je reste sur ma FAIM. J’aurais voulu 200 pages de plus au moins, et la je ne sais pas ce que je vais faire sans le prochain.
Je savais déjà qu’on allait avoir du trauma à foison, et un slow burn slow de chez slow, puisque c’est la marque de fabrique de très chère Nora.

J’ai beaucoup aimé en apprendre plus sur ces FRAPPADINGUES de Ravens, j’ai hate de connaître plus Jeremy, on a eu que des entrevues, et on ne comprend toujours pas ce qui lui est arrivé à lui.

Pauvre Jean vraiment on est sur du high level de trauma la aussi, et je me demande ce qu’elle va nous pondre pour Jeremy.\
Et Jeremy…… tellement mignon, tellement doux, ils sont parfaits, j’ai vraiment hate de les voir s’aimer. Ca m’a donné envie de tout relire.

Bref pour moi c’était pas assez, je veux plus plus plus plus

Note ; 17/20

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cyancookie's review

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dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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eb10's review

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challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Oh my god! Nothing can emotionally wreck me more than Nora Sakavic writing about Jean

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shakita45's review

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emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

When I picked this book up, I absolutely didn't expect it to become my favorite entry into the All For The Game series. I loved Neil's story so much, and Jean was a side character at best, and primarily an antagonist. I was extremely ambivalent about following him instead of a more familiar character, but my stance on that changed FAST.

This story really highlights how far Nora's writing has come over the years, which allows Jean to be both a person who has had wrong done to him while also perpetuating wrongness to other characters. It never feels like we're trying to excuse Jean's exactions, but rather that we're looking into all the things that went into making him, HIM.

Jeremy Knox is also a stand-out as one of my favorite AFTG characters, if not my absolute favorite at this point. He's such a ray of sunshine, who we know battles his own demons, but he's such a rock in the storm that Jean is weathering, and we see how seriously he takes his position as captain, and how that extends to the care and consideration he gives all the other Trojans.

Jean is special to him, I think, but Jeremy's actions towards Jean AREN'T special; I firmly believe he would go this far for anyone who needed him to, and I think that makes him such a remarkable character. Neil and Andrew were both wounded animals, biting at each other and taking comfort in the only ways they know how, but Jean and Jeremy have such a KIND dynamic at the end of the day. I think more than anything, Jean wants to be kind, because no matter what he's suffered, he still pays such incredible attention to the people around him and tries to do right by them.

I'm going to be on absolute pins and needles while I wait for the next book, and I am positively frothing at the mouth to learn more about Jeremy's backstory.

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