Review: The Sky Blues

 

Honestly, I had never heard of the book until I actually started the 25 days of Christmas reading challenge. Even though I am partly freaked out about not being able to finish it in time, I am more angry about why I'd never heard about the book. 

Also I downloaded some new fonts and wanted to try them out for the blog, it gets boring ya know.

The Sky Blues by Robbie Couch is the story of Sky, a high school senior in Rock Ledge, a small town in North Michigan.  Sky has thirty days to plan  big promposal for Ali Rashid, the guy that he has been crushing on for almost his entire life, but when a homophobic e-blast of his school's yearbook ousts his plans and calls his lifetime crush a terrorist, things are going to have to change for him.

QUICK THOUGHTS AND REVIEW: 4/5, a read if you want a detox. I just realized I use the word detox a bit too much.

PROS:

1. It's a gay promposal story. Two of my favourite things put into one novel. Who doesn't want that? A dumbass probably but who cares? There's a gay love story involving a promposal, man just take my money already, I'm sold.

2. Trans Rep: I know that we don't know about Dan being trans very later into the story, but it sort of makes me happy that we don't. It's kinda nice to see that trans people are being treated as normal folks into the story and not being treated as a separate community altogether, or as if they were an alien species dropped on earth from space. So it felt nice to see Dan treated as a normal person.

3. The promposal in itself: Though Ali and Sky never end up together, the single plan of a promposal is bound to bring a smile onto everyone's faces. I've never been to a prom myself, and I have always wanted to go to one. The planning that Sky and Bree went through with their wall was amazing. Also TEDDY'S PROMPOSAL AT THE END. Marshall being a petty little shit and making a master plan for Teddy to confess to Sky, just, mwah. Someone just make a fake prom and prompose to me already!

4. Character: Though I characteristically hate Sky's mom and brother, there were other folks in the book that I loved a lot. Bree and Marshall , for one, they're the Hinata where my fellow Haikyuu fans at  to Sky's Kageyama and they're always with him no matter what. Penelope Winter is also a really nice character I loved. You know the one teacher who's tough on you but ends up being your favourite? That's what Winter is like. And Charlie and Brian, they're just, so ..I don't have words about them. Brian is chaotic and that's why I love him more than I should.

5. Bonding moments: They're just...awesome. Dan x Bree, Marshall x Bree x Sky, Teddy x Sky (although they were few), Charlie x Sky, Winter x the kids, Sky x the Brandstones. I don't know what to say about them. It just makes me feel good to know that there are still some bonds that makes you feel good about humanity. Bree, Marshall, Dan and Teddy just teaming up to catch the person who sent that e-blast was also cute. 

6. AND LAST BUT NOT THE LEAST, THE MAKING OF "GAY FOR" T-SHIRTS. LIKE THE ENTIRE SENIOR YEAR TEAMED UP TO MAKE THEM LIKE BRO, WHERE THIS TEAMWORK IN MY SCHOOL HUH?

CONS:

1. Pacing: The beginning was fine, in my opinion. But I somehow felt like in the middle, it kind of dismantled itself chaotically, and I didn't like that. There was some drag as well which kinda, you know, made me consider dropping the book and yeet it to the DNF zone but my good heart you know cough cough none of it is good cough cough.  

OVERALL, A GOOD READ, definitely worth the holiday season.