This series speaks to meaningful themes such as discovery of self, learning to trust, and finding passion beyond our fear. While this is the surface story, of course, there are many various layers to it as well. The Foxhole Court Trilogy follows Neil Josten, son of a mobster, who is on the run and trying to escape the Butcher of Baltimore. If you’re interested in finding out more information about the series’ start, the characters, or curious details about the characters (after the story ends), check out Nora’s blog, Courting Madness and Tumblr blog, Korakos. Sakavic started this series in an online format, but it was published in its entirety in 2013, and holds a thriving, controversial fandom. It was, as I said, written and self-published by Nora Sakavic. The series contains three books including The Foxhole Court, The Raven King, and The King’s Men. Sakavic’s series is actually entitled All for the Game, but I never could get that to stick in my brain and so I’ve always referred to it as The Foxhole Court Trilogy. If internet rumors are correct, we could be looking at another series in the future. She released bits and pieces of early drafts of The Foxhole Court Trilogy there and found a community very willing to support her project. What I can tell is that she was another author who got her start through sharing her writing on Tumblr, before the term Instawriter became famous. She does not put an About Me in any of her books, and in all my scrounging through the internet, I haven’t found much personal information about her. She’s a self-published creator who tends not to do very much promotion for her work, and yet this series-her debut series-went viral on the internet between 2013-2015 when it was released and was still making quite the impression when I discovered it in 2018.
To be completely honest, there isn’t a lot of information available about Nora Sakavic as an author. But one thing that drew me to this as I was reading is that it doesn’t succumb to labels-it could be sold under a YA or sports fiction label, but there are so many other crazy things going on in this series, that you really can’t cleanly box it into one-or even two-genres. And that’s saying a lot, considering I don’t prefer YA contemporary or sports related fiction. I consider this series a guilty pleasure.
People are either all for it, or they’re pitted thoroughly against it. With its fandom, there’s no in-between, really. When you sit down to read this series, you’re either going to love it or hate it. But I’ve heard many people describe this series and say, “It will feel like you’re reading fan fiction.” It ought to feel sacrilegious, like a book burning, to follow up a series on fan fiction with a book review, I suppose. At first, it felt odd to consider reviewing this series right on the heels of a series on fan fiction.
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