So, this book was probably my favorite of the trilogy, but, it made the other two books seem...more ridiculous, so that brings the rating down a bit.

The fact that I still don't understand what the honest to god Yakuza has to do with Not-Lacrosse is troubling, and I've given it a little bit of thought, and I just think that is book could have been helped if it were one book, and not a trilogy. In that case, the action that primarily drives Neil (not, Not-Lacrosse, but the Gangsters), would have happened closer to the end instead of the middle of the action, the exy could have been savored a little more, and the characters would be more fleshed out based solely on the fact that she had less room to do the same amount of work with them. They would feel more nuanced and less plastic, and also you wouldn't have a year and a half to think about how ridiculous it was that anyone cared enough about college level not-lacrosse to tattoo teenagers faces.

Also, it's like,

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enraging to me that Ichirou shot Riko in the epilogue

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Also, shit, like there was any doubt in your mind that they were going to lose against the Ravens? Really.