I fell as much in love with the side-characters as I did with the Wills – possibly even more so. Their friends are both the mirrors held up to show them their true faces (in all their beauty and ugliness) and the voices telling them what they could become. It’s revealed by their interactions with the other people in their lives. One of the most beautiful things about this book is that much of what is revealed about the Wills isn’t actually revealed by examining them. It isn’t TFIOS, because nothing ever could be, but it has a similar heart-warming quality that really drew me in and made me fall in love with the characters. I’d actually go so far as to say that this is my second favourite of Green’s pieces of writing (I have yet to explore Levithan’s, however this book definitely has encouraged me to do so). Both the Will Graysons are drawn with a raw honesty that makes your heart ache for them. I alternated between nodding along to the feelings of alienation our Wills suffered, and giggling at their antics. Not surprisingly, given that John Green wrote The Fault In Our Stars, this book combined humour with impeccable social commentary to create a cohesive, irresistible whole. Each boy is about to face their fears and take a brave step towards a life in which they can not only be happier, but be more, well, Will Grayson than they’ve ever been before. When the two Will Graysons cross paths, both their lives change. it’s because a little piece gets lost – the two remaining ends couldn’t’ fit together even if they wanted to. “when things break, it’s not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. But he’s got some surprisingly on point observations about life, that will come out of nowhere and hit you upside the head. He’s got a stressed out single mom, he’s on medication for depression, and he spends most of his life hiding who he really is from everyone. Hard to do when your lifelong best friend is a gigantic gay football player named Tiny. The first Will Grayson (written by the unmistakable John Green) is a high school student whose biggest goal in life is to shut up and not be noticed. The book is about two boys who share one important thing: their name. But as I continued reading and got accustomed to both characters and writing styles, I fell in love with the idea. So the first time the chapters switched, it was a bit jarring.

At first it threw me off – it’s difficult to create two distinct voices when both are written by the same author, so even in books with split narrative there’s stylistic and linguistic consistency. I don’t think I’ve ever encountered this before, but it really worked.

Not only does it split the narrative between the first-person perspectives of two different characters – but each character is written by a different author.

Will Grayson, Will Grayson is a unique book.

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