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Seth, a recovered drug addict, overdoses and dies. Neil is forced into situations that remind him of his past, he is forced to open up, from showing his scars, to his eye colour, to talking about who he is.

Every single character is mishandled, every single one. I think that’s one of my biggest issues with this book, the disrespect of trauma.I didn’t like this scene, I thought the removal of Neil’s consent in every situation, giving him no choice but to keep moving, disrespected his trauma as a character After, we get a poor reconciliation of sorts with Andrew, where Neil is forced once again to do something he doesn’t want to. Neil gets himself knocked out to escape from the situation, and then hitchhikes back to the court. Andrew and Nicky acting like it was for the protection of the group, that this was Andrew’s way of looking out for them, is a cheap way to excuse the behavior of the characters. The way that Neil was treated, the way he is tossed about and forced into situations that he obviously wanted no part in, the way he is stripped of his consent, made me want to throw up. The night club scene, this was godawful.Nicky forcing himself on Neil to push drugs into his mouth has made me so upset that I cannot even begin to put it into words. The amount of rape jokes made towards Neil are disgusting. So, why is Sakavic’s only current openly gay character portrayed as being completely perverse. Maybe I will, but as of right now I don’t. He has physically and verbally assaulted, abused, and forced drugs upon Neil. But he is an unstable character, who will need a lot of work to get to a point where Neil can logically trust him, and even a longer time for him to be reasonably redeemed. Where do we begin? He’s got knife arm, so that’s pretty rad. The real problem was in what happened next, Neil claiming to find home after hearing the person he’d been living with died. But from what I have read, his death being treated like an ironic joke by Andrew was unsettling, and Neil’s indifference had much of the same effect. I was upset, to say the least, and can’t speak all too well on how she will choose to handle the aftermath as I have not started book two. In regards to anything else, not so much. His death left me a bit shell shocked, and it was handled well in regards to mood. At times this works, note the game scenes as well as the interview, but mostly it just drags the scenes on for longer than they should. I knew how Neil opened doors and how he walked, and how he moved his fingers, before I had a clear idea of what he looked like. Beyond the writing style, the author chooses to over describe everything.This is a problem that lends itself to destroy a good deal of the fun in figuring things out. This also leads the the mystery being erased relatively fast, as a reader wondering who Kevin really was to Neil it was disappointing to get the answer handed to me so early on. The dialogue is jilted, with character’s randomly dumping exposition on your head whenever they can. I am not the first person, nor will I be the last, to point out how poorly written these books are when compared to other’s in their genre, and just in general. Neil getting called a whore, don’t ask why it made me laugh. Seth flipping off both his and the opposing team. Gorilla and his interactions with the other characters brings such a lively change to the dynamics. The character interactions are so well done. The first big game, that scene is incredible.

I actually really liked Seth as a character, which is a less than popular opinion from what I have seen.

Other things, he’s fun to read about, this kid is wild and I adore it. His trauma was a bit mishandled, but we’ll get to that. I enjoyed watching him open up more as the book went on, and seeing him admit to his desire to belong broke me. He’s been through so much, and I really do want the best for him. I really liked his characterization, he was easy to connect to, I felt for him and all of the pain he was put through. Spoilers for the first novel below, so read at your own risk! Things I enjoyed:

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I wasn’t really sure how to start this out, so I’ve split it into sections of the things I enjoyed and the things I did not enjoy.

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Well, here it is, my full review of the first book of All for the Game, I went in to this more or less blind, so this is what I’d like to believe a rather unbiased review.