I stopped reading this at 80%, but I'm marking it as read, fight me. I deserve it after having to deal with this. 
 I freaking hated this book. Like, it almost bored me to tears. I'm genuinely so confused as to why everyone loves this so much! 
 The sport was boring, confusing and unrealistic as hell. I feel as though it would have been just as fine if football or something was used, the made-up sport was pointless in my opinion and kinda didn't make sense? 
 The characters were trying to be complex by having shitty pasts, but they were unrealistic, flat, and frustrating. I didn't get how this group of misfits all managed to fit together. I'm not opposed whatsoever to reading about people with 'issues' or 'misfits', like with Six Of Crows, for example, there were six characters who shouldn't have fit together, but did so beautifully and it was perfect. In this book, there were a bunch of random ass dramatic angsty teenagers shoved together and it was awkward and there was just no dynamic whatsoever. The whole character situation was truly horrific. I thought it was going to be about these broken but badass characters who had issues and dark pasts but all came together, but it was just awkward, unnecessarily angsty brats arguing and punching each other for no reason? 
 I hated how 'faggot' and 'retard' and whatever else got thrown around. It made me dislike the characters and the book even more. I hated how blase the book was with topics such as self-harm and mental illness, it just brushed them off and made like a weird joke of them? It was weird as fuck and super annoying and frustrating for me. 
 I also hated the writing style? It was info-dumpy, boring, the dialogue was slow. Sure, there were a few decent quotes about second chances and whatever, but that's about it. Also, it was very 'Neil did this, then Neil did that. Neil didn't know this, but Neil could understand why Nicky wanted Neil to do that'. I'm actually curious as to how many times 'he/him' could have been used instead of 'Neil', because I feel like 40% of the book's word count was just the names of characters?? 
 Anyway. Hated this book. First DNF in a loooooong time. Not continuing on with the series.