Matthew reads, I guess...

I don’t want to be dramatic, but proper official, tagged, reviews come so few and far between on this blog that I’m genuinely quite shocked that I’m writing one. But still, here we are, and here is my review of Conventionally Yours by Annabeth Albert.     Also, for those who want the YouTube version of this review (CLICK HERE)  and you will be taken to my video review :).      So, before I even started reading Conventionally Yours , I read the back of the book where it said, “Two famous rivals. One epic road trip. Some uncomfortably tight quarters. And a journey neither will ever forget.” And then in a little handwritten looking annotation in quotation marks, it said, “Why is there only one bed?!” and that was when I knew I was in for some fanfic level tropes – we’ve got the sharing a bed trope, “two famous rivals” meant enemies to lovers. Now, I want it to be known that I’m not saying that as a bad thing at all. Quite the opposite in fact. I think that f...

So, as I was making my notes for this post, I wasn’t entirely sure of what direction I wanted to take it in, other than I just wanted to talk about Geography Club by Brent Hartinger and why it is so important to me.      I will also mention, if you want to avoid absolutely all spoilers, I’d avoid the second half of this post, as it does talk about parts of the plot. If you’re not bothered, feel free to read the whole thing (and give me that sweet, sweet engagement).      I have a pretty roundabout way as to how I even found out about this book. I’m pretty sure I’ve made that exact statement in another post – that I’m pretty sure was my “Books I speed read” post. I know that in that post I said that I was going to expand on that story in another post, and this is the that post.      So, we begin on Netflix n 2013/14. I realise that doesn’t seem like it connects, but it does, trust me. So, we begin on Netflix in 2013/14, and I’m a pretty new-...