Book Review- Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan

Hey there, people! Does anyone actually read this or am I just writing to write? Well, I guess only the readers know. So- update on me- I got a computer! Yay! It was a birthday/Christmas/Easter present for the next 5 years. So expensive but so worth it! It's a MacBook Air which are lighter and less expensive than the normal Apple computers. I got it on Sunday, so I'm still learning to use it, kind of, and I thought "what better way to practice typing than to do a blog post." So, this book review is on an amazing young adult contemporary novel called Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan. My computer keeps wanting to correct his last name to Leviathan. Okay, I admit: this is one of the books I stayed up all night reading. It was so good! Disclaimer: before any of you get mad at me for liking a John Green book because of the controversy over him "sexually abusing" girls, I'm saying that I'm reviewing his writing, his characters, his plot, not him as a person, and also, just trying to make a point here, no hate please(!), just because a person writes about teenage girls, does not mean that they have a wish to have sex with them. My main characters are a 16 year old fairy and a 16 year old boy. Does this mean I want to sexually abuse a 16 year old fairy and a teenage boy? No. Okay, that's all I have to say about John Green and the abuse thing. Stick with me here.

This is the cover:

This is the Goodreads summary: 

Will Grayson meets Will Grayson. One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, two strangers are about to cross paths. From that moment on, their world will collide and lives intertwine.

It's not that far from Evanston to Naperville, but Chicago suburbanites Will Grayson and Will Grayson might as well live on different planets. When fate delivers them both to the same surprising crossroads, the Will Graysons find their lives overlapping and hurtling in new and unexpected directions. With a push from friends new and old - including the massive, and massively fabulous, Tiny Cooper, offensive lineman and musical theater auteur extraordinaire - Will and Will begin building toward respective romantic turns-of-heart and the epic production of history's most awesome high school musical.

What I thought:

I loved this book! We're gonna call heterosexual Will "Will 1" and we're gonna call homosexual Will "will 2," okay? Okay. I love the way that David Levithan treated homosexuality and depression. I loved that, instead of making will 2 discover his depression, he decided to let will 2 deal with it. I have been around depression enough and I have an understanding of it. Not a very good understanding, but I have one. I also love how well thought out and how real these characters were. I just wanted to give will 2 a hug when I read his chapters. And Will 1's gay best friend, Tiny? OMG! I love him. SPOILER ALERT! When will 2 and Tiny started dating, I knew it wouldn't last. It was obvious it wouldn't work out. And Isaac! I hate Maura. will 2 deserves a happy ending. END SPOILER! My favorite scene by far is when Tiny gives that amazing glass bowl to will 2's mother. It was so sweet it was when she got tears in her eyes. I can understand that and I bet my mom could, too. And I love how Will 1 realized how much he loved Tiny. I can totally understand how much he loved Tiny without "love, love." You don't have to be attracted to someone to love them. I have a friend like that- his name's Aaron- and I love him sooooo much but I'm not at all attracted to him. He's amazing. Okay, back to the book. will 2 had to be my favorite character. He's much more relatable than Will 1. Will 1 is more, how do I say this, perfect. He doesn't seem to have any problems, other than Jane, and even that turns out well. will 2 should have gotten a better ending. I loved how will 2 went on a rant accusing Tiny of having no problems, or rather not having problems, and Tiny goes on saying how he knows people think he's huge, but he's okay with that and he loves himself anyway. We could all take a leaf from Tiny Cooper's book. I, for one, am a little chunky and I can understand where Tiny comes from, everyone thinking he's huge. I loved the way we have two completely opposite characters, like polar opposites, but they both happen to have the same name. 

I loved this book, and I would recommend it to mature readers anywhere. Give it a shot. It's not for everyone, and it does have bad language, but I don't care. Don't judge a book by how many times it drops the"f-bomb," rather, judge it by how well it is written, how well developed the characters are, and how the plot unfolds. I'll see myself out. ;) 

Thank you so much for reading!

xoxo,

Eve