However, there are quite a few things about Tiny that rubbed me the wrong way. Now, in theory that would’ve been fine, although the whole “Will Grayson, Will Grayson” thing combined with the blurb is kind of false advertising.
(damn, why do they both have to have the same name, this is getting so confusing) Will2 meets Tiny around the same time he meets Will1 and that same night Will2 and Tiny become boyfriends (I wouldn’t call it a relationship per se) and from there on out basically everything revolves around Tiny. It’s actually all about the relationship of both Wills with Tiny Cooper, who is Will1’s best friend. I thought it was going to be about the relationship between these two Will Graysons (either platonic or romantic - I didn’t really care), but their relationship hardly even features in the story. The story took a completely different direction than I thought it would after reading the blurb. There were also some bits I definitely related to and agreed with, but let’s just say this book wasn’t what I was used to with John’s novels.
I mean, I liked the writing (duh, it’s these two) and I enjoyed reading the book, but there were some parts of it that left me feeling a little uncomfortable and dissatisfied. I’m sad to say I was kind of disappointed. All in all, I started this novel with high hopes. Plus, not too long ago I read a short story by David Levithan and loved it, so that seemed like a very good sign as well. Two teens with the same name, running in two very different circles, suddenly find their lives going in new and unexpected directions, culminating in heroic turns-of-heart and the most epic musical ever to grace the high-school stage.Īs long time followers of my blog will probably be aware of by now, I’m a big fan of John Green’s work, so I was excited to read Will Grayson, Will Grayson, the only novel of John’s I hadn’t read yet. One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, two strangers cross paths.
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