#also i cannot emphasise enough the importance of checking the trigger warnings beforehand

[cosmoshunger]

HEY. help me. can you describe aftg to me with as little spoilers as possible

The main character is a boy on the run called Neil Josten. He gets an offer to join a famous collegiate sports team called the Palmetto State Foxes and he can’t resist accepting even though he knows the fame will be dangerous for him. (The sport in question is a made-up sport called exy. It’s explained just enough that you can follow along the matches and get excited about strategy, but since the sport kind of takes a back seat to the other stuff going on, it doesn’t spend too much time going through rules and stuff.) The Foxes are infamous because they’re a kind of rehabilitation team - the coach recruits players from difficult backgrounds to give them a second chance through exy. Because of this the characters are all damaged people who do shitty things, and as they delve into the backstories of various team members MANY TRIGGER WARNINGS APPLY. In the vaguest way so as not to spoil anything, the main conflict is that the world of exy has…a lot of connections to Neil’s life before he went on the run, which puts him even more at risk.

Essentially it’s this messy combination of sports and thriller and messed up found family that somehow works just enough to keep you really invested. It’s not perfect and it has more than its fair share of problematic elements, so you kind of have to go into it with as few expectations as possible and just sort of go along with it until it clicks. Boy is it fun though.