Every Word You Never Said (3) (A Noahverse Story)

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Age appropriate actions and responses, unfiltered as teenagers are. I can’t remember giggling so much over a read in a long time. Before cancel culture rant, yes, they’ve all had a go at this book—kids are kids. I loved they behaved as teens, reacted and messed up. Skylar’s parents were super sweet!!! There aren’t a lot of people who would want to adopt a gay, non-verbal boy who wears skirts. They’re probably the most understanding adoptive couple out there, and I would’ve loved to see the development of their relationship with Skylar. Unfortunately, though, Skylar was just adopted at the start of the book, so we never actually got to see their bond being formed, which in my opinion was a wasted opportunity. My heart aches for Skylar. The pain of his past makes him doubt the possibility of a future full of love and happiness. Anxiety + Fear = Self Sabotage? This book had a lot more homophobia / ableism / bullying than I expected. Not necessarily a bad thing – it’s probably realistic, unfortunately – I just wasn’t expecting it.

Are you kidding??? First of all, y’all never discussed it, so of course Jacob isn’t 100% sure if you’re officially boyfriends or not, and secondly, you’ve been dating for 2 weeks, and you only started talking 1 month ago!!! Of course he isn’t sure he’s in love, you barely know each other!!! There are some hidden gems in here. This book made me think quite a bit. However I actually didn’t like most of the poems in the second half. I've said all I wanted to say, so I'll close out with one of my favourite passages from the collection: And guess what? Finally, today, I found out that the poet, Iain S. Thomas who wrote this AMAZING poetry book wrote that book as well! His supportive adoptive parents were great too, encouraging him to be who he is and dress and act like he wants to.Poetry means different things to different people. Hell, it can even mean literally nothing at all to you. That's the beauty of what it is as a medium. It can be that connection, that feeling of "Someone else finally understands. Thank the stars. Thank the stars. I'm not alone." Skylar Gray: The biggest thing for me was the fact that he in nonverbal, adopted, queer and has been bullied for all that and bounced around from foster home to foster home but still retained his kindness towards people.

And how can I write a review without mentioning The Grays?! Oh, my heart! They are so damn beautiful. Kimberly and Bob are my favourites, other than Skylar and Jacob, of course. Lol And while you're waiting, if you haven't read A Mark on My Soul or Watching for Comets, you have plenty of time. All three of these books are in the Noahverse, but they're easily read as standalones too. You just might get a few neat little extra things out of it if you read the first two books before Every Word You Never Said comes out. Anyway, please do not let my review put you off reading this book! Every Word You Never Said has all kinds of great representation. Throughout the story, there were a lot of important topics discussed and i think these conversations were all handled very well. If you’re looking for a super sweet, queer romance with boys wearing skirts, then this could be a book for you! And then we have the story itself, a battle of gender, sexuality, societal conformity, and religion. Through the project, he was also able to have skateboards delivered to The Uganda Skateboard Union on behalf of Stacy Peralta, director of Dogtown And Z-Boys and Riding Giants and he’s previously acted as a creative consultant to Brian Wayne Transeau or “BT” (whose previous collaborators include Peter Gabriel, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and David Bowie, amongst others) on his last album, If The Stars Are Eternal, So Are You And I.What I didn’t like that much was their use of langue in their conversations sometimes. It felt like an adult writing teenagers if you get what I mean. (Or do teenagers these days really call each other bitch every two sentences? I don’t know.) I don't usually like pop culture references in books as it makes them dated and are usually just cringey and this book supported that. I know that at least once, if not several times, someone you knew woke up in the middle of the night thinking of you and wondering what became of you.

He's like me. He's broken, hurting. This, all of this, is not what I expected, it's not the idea of him I had in my head. It makes him more real to me. And honestly, it makes him beautiful." Basically every character called each other a “bitch” too, and like… I also call my friends “bitch” sometimes, but, once again, they used the word a lot, and I didn’t really feel like they were *that close* yet, so it felt weird every single time lol. Jacob’s character development focuses on his overcoming his biases and becoming an advocate (sometimes awkwardly). In the beginning, Jacob sees a separation between Skylar and the British-accented voice on his phone: “I find myself wishing I could hear his voice, like his actual voice, not his phone. As cute as he is, I bet it would be amazing.” We see the change slowly in Jacob as he realizes that Skylar’s AAC isn’t a burden or separate from him, the same way many abled people will say “I’m sorry” when someone uses a wheelchair, but other disabled people will see it as the freedom to move around painlessly. Most importantly, when Jacob and Skylar’s relationship experiences some turbulence, Jacob never stops advocating for Skylar’s causes and continues working with the local Pride Center to challenge the dress code that prevents Skylar from wearing skirts and dresses when he feels like it. Even Jacob’s friends at first are surprised to find out that he’s still making calls and participating when the issue doesn’t affect him directly, but then join him when they see it’s a cause he cares about. I am so thankful that Jordon was able to give me an eARC of this book! I loved this book. I knew I would love it, but i did not think it would be to this scale. Jordon crafts two more characters that fit into his world perfectly.I also really love that Skylar likes to wear skirts and makeup. Once again, it’s something we don’t see a lot of, even in more progressive and diverse books/movies/shows, so it was really nice to have a gender non-conforming MC. Skylar also finds friends with Imani and Seth - and these two, especially Imani, are just awesome. She seriously is the smartest of the whole bunch lol and stole the show for me. Him wearing a skirt to school and angering not only his schoolmates and teachers, but the school board and a lot of people in town was nothing he needed on top of that. Jacob is also gay but has a seriously overbearing god fearing Christian father. Which makes his home life pretty awful. His dad is the ringleader for opposing boys wearing “girls” clothes.