That’s the writer calling out problems and expressing how damaging they are. When writers use slurs to foreground certain social issues, and draw the reader out of their comfort zone to showing why said issue is not acceptable, that’s a positive way of tackling inequalities and injustice. I feel very conflicted about this book because the characters were dynamic and the storytelling addictive, but there were a number of abelist and homophobic slurs that I just couldn’t get past. Neil signs a contract to play for the team, knowing it’s the last thing he should do when trying to stay under the radar, but he’s draw in by their leading player Kevin, a figure from his old life he wants to know the other player better, but he can’t tell him who he really is. But that all changes when the Foxes of Palmetto State University scout him for their Exy team. Neil is on the run from his murderous father, never staying in one place for too long, never settling down and making friends. Hope was a dangerous, disquieting thing, but he thought perhaps he liked it.
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