All for the game trilogy by Nora Sakavic

Here's the summary of the first book (the foxhole court) from Goodreads

Neil Josten is the newest addition to the Palmetto State University Exy team. He's short, he's fast, he's got a ton of potential—and he's the runaway son of the murderous crime lord known as The Butcher.

Signing a contract with the PSU Foxes is the last thing a guy like Neil should do. The team is high profile and he doesn't need sports crews broadcasting pictures of his face around the nation. His lies will hold up only so long under this kind of scrutiny and the truth will get him killed.

But Neil's not the only one with secrets on the team. One of Neil's new teammates is a friend from his old life, and Neil can't walk away from him a second time. Neil has survived the last eight years by running. Maybe he's finally found someone and something worth fighting for. 

I feel very confused. Loke, the writing is bad, there are so many things that just simply do not happen in real life, and sometimes the characters just seem just so exagerated it makes you wonder why you even like the book at all. However, the plot is very exciting, so you can't help yourself from reading like a maniac because you just need to know.

I have issues on the fact that Nora has no idea of how drugs work, how professional sports work, and didn't bother explaining her invented sport (exy) until the end of the second book (where she wrote the rules almost like an afterthought). I mean, even if you write a book about a well known sport, you should assume that at least some of your readers don't know the rules well, and so you must explain them. Even more important if the sport is something you made up yourself. Also, you shold take into account no kind of sports team allow their players to play either drunk or drugged, let alone have their coach turn a blind eye to their getting drunk or drugged. Also, mixing antipsicotics with alcohol is a bad idea. In fact, mixing any kind of drug with alcohol is a bad idea. And shouldn't the same courts who decided to drug Andrew have told him so?

As for the level of unreal some of the things... jusy don't add up. Either they don't really happen that way in real life (like using a trigger of a horrid memory as a way to calm down) or they're just too random to make sense and leave you feeling like ummm.... ok?

And yet, it was such an exciting series, and such an emotional roller coaster, I can't even say I won't ever read them again. In fact, between my ridiculous academic load I still managed to finish this three books in about a week and a half.

I really have plenty of things against this books, but can't bring myself to dislike them... but the fact that it was exciting still doesn't make them good! I'm so conflicted I can't even say if I recommend them or not, so do as you please with this ones.