Here Goes Nothing

"Here Goes Nothing", the sequel to "There Goes Sunday School" by Alexander C Eberhart was just as heart-wrenching, heart-breaking, heart-stopping as the original.

["For high school senior Mike Hernandez, everything is finally falling perfectly into place. He’s publishing his first web comic with his new boyfriend, his friends and family are totally supportive, and he’s looking towards a future he never let himself imagine.

Chris Myers is a boy on the mend. After an almost deadly altercation with his father a year ago, he and his mother are finally moving back to Atlanta and back to the boy he left behind. A boy who he can’t seem to forget even if that boy seems to have had no trouble moving on without him.

When they reconnect in school, they can't escape each other's pull, even with Mike’s new boyfriend and a huge tragedy between them. Now Mike has a choice to make, keep his new safe relationship, or return to the boy he lost, the boy he just can’t stop thinking about.

Choosing Chris means facing their dark past, a darkness Mike isn’t sure Chris can handle. Can the boys trust their hearts and give in to their feelings or will ‘here goes nothing’ lead to them losing everything?"]

To Catch You Up (because I know I needed it--aka SPOILERS from the first novel): Chris and Mike broke up at the end of the novel since they didn't want to do a long-distance thing, and because Chris's father tried to kill him thing (I can't remember all of the details, but like homophobic bigot with anger issues disguised as a community leader, need I say more).

I sobbed. Again. Who's shocked? Not me. Forgot how deep and dark Alexander can get. Wow. Totally worth it though. Just saying.

Most of the same trigger warnings for the first novel apply to this one as well: homophobia, internalized homophobia, graphic language, suicide, extreme bigotry, violence, misuse of queer words/phrases, and probably a lot more.

Now I'm off to try to find something to read that won't send me into a depressive downward spiral. 

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