John Green and David Leviathan’s Will Grayson, Will Grayson is a story told from the alternating perspectives of two boys named Will Grayson who end up meeting partway through the novel and changing each other’s lives.
The first Will Grayson is an average, nerdy high schooler who is forever by the side of Tiny Cooper, described by Will as “the world’s largest person who is really, really gay and the world’s gayest person who is really, really large.” The other Will Grayson, who always writes in lowercase, is extremely apathetic, and deals with understanding his sexuality by conversing with online strangers.
While Will Grayson, Will Grayson tells a witty and original story, some parts of the novel seem unrealistically paced. Relationships happen instantly, and while high school intimacies are often sped up, the ones present in the book are a bit too fast for readers to appreciate. The second Will Grayson’s attitude is also impractically depressing and detached, making his “emo” character unlikeable at first.
However, Will Grayson, Will Grayson, does an impressive job of telling an unconventional story of Illinois teenagers looking for love, adventure and everything that comes with it.