Matthew reads, I guess...

  So, as I’m writing this, I think out of my entire bookshelf, there are two books that I haven’t actually read. I’ve read everything else and it’s wild. But today, I’m talking about Lost in the Never Woods by Aiden Thomas, author of Cemetery Boys , one of my favourite books of all time. The blurb says that five years ago, Wendy and her two brothers vanished into the woods. She was the only one who returned. Now, children are starting to disappear – and the townsfolk are coming to Wendy for answers. Desperate to flee her past, Wendy encounters Peter, a boy she thought lived only in her imagination, who begs for her help to rescue the missing kids. But in order to find them, Wendy must confront what’s waiting for her in the woods. So in the first chapter, it’s Miss Wendy’s eighteenth birthday, she’s a volunteer in a hospital as she’s trying to become a nurse, and this girl Ashley, that Wendy had actually seen that morning, has gone missing, meaning that two kids had gone missing in...

  So me reading this book has come after I read If I See You Again Tomorrow , also by Robbie Couch, and really loving it. As in probably one of my top books of the year enjoy. And since I loved that book so much, it just made sense in my brain to read another of Couch’s books, and today it’s The Sky Blues . The blurbs tells us that Sky Baker may be openly gay, but in his small, insular town, making sure he’s invisible has always been easier than being himself. Determined not to let anything ruin his senior year, Sky decides to make a splash at his high school’s annual beach bum party by asking his crush, Ali, to prom – and he has thirty days to do it. What better way to start living loud and proud than pulling off the gayest promposal that Rock Ledge, Michigan, has ever seen? Then, Sky’s plans get leaked by an anonymous hacker in a deeply homophobic e-blast that quickly goes viral. He’s fully prepared to skip town altogether until his classmates give him a reason to fight back by...