Ok so I knew the set up of this novel, John Green writes a chapter, David Levithan writes a chapter and so on. But I didn't expect the writing styles to be so different. But after getting over my initial shock of David Levithan's lack of capital letters, the book was easy to get into and stuff. And it was worth reading. It was a bit...weird in some places, but it was just brilliantly done. I honestly don't know how else to put it.
Ok so I'm going to pick out the two authors. Starting with John Green. Now I've read Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines and Paper Towns and loved them all. Even got my teacher into reading them. But now, this was just such a brilliant story, and written so well it's amazing. I honestly think it's my favourite piece of writing from him. I loved the chemistry from the characters, I loved the way he wrote it, because though he has a writing style that runs through his novels, there was something a little different in this one, and it was just well done.
Now for David Levithan. I've never read one of his novels before so I had no idea what to expect. and as i said before, when he talks with no capital letter it puts you off a bit but i got over it quickly. Ok, I'll stop with the none capitals. But after you get over that and how he doesn't use speech bubbles and writes in script form, you realise that it's kinda a good way to write. I mean it's telling you what the character thinks, what's going on and what they're saying. It's not like you're reading an account of someone who's wrote it down and things it's like you're actually in their mind. It was amazing to read what it was. And to be honest, I just loved it, I loved the characters, I loved the honesty of the characters and how they reacted to every day life.
Ok so now this is a long review. But I don't care I have all of these ideas about this book stuck in my head and I need to get it out. And it will have a lot of spoilers so for once I'm warning you completely away from them because I WANT YOU TO ENJOY AND READ THIS BOOK!!!!
Ok so Tiny Cooper was amazing, I loved his character, it was such an honest opinion and just an amazingly deep character in the end, something I hadn't been expecting. He had a lot of heart and he was just brilliantly done.
As for John Green's Will Grayson (we'll call him odd Grayson because he has the odd chapters) I love how he was so average. Ok so he had this big and bold friend, but he was so average that he could be anyone. I loved that, brilliantly written. And just everything about his policy to shut up and not care. Brilliant.
Even Grayson was amazing. Depressed and it was just brilliantly done, like it was believable, and like we've all been in one of those states or seen one of those people and we can relate to him in ways that we can relate to Odd Grayson. I loved his character.
Ok so then there was Maura. Bitch. I didn't like her. I mean there are ways to get a man, but lying to him pretending you're a guy it's just weird. I mean I get why she did it I do, but what's the point? If he blatantly doesn't want you though just leave him alone. Enough said.
Tiny Cooper. I want to give this dude a hug lol. He's brilliant. His musical I'd go to see, his characteristics are brilliant, and he just seems like a fun person to be around.
Also the end. Oh my god I've never sobbed so much good sobbing at a book. Just a brilliant ending.
Overall rating- 9 out of 10 (only not ten so it doesn't seem like I'm REALLY biased lol)
Would I read anything else from this author- I would, I might pick up some of David Levithan's other books. And I will pick up every single John Green book.
Anything Else- This book is brilliant, but definitely not a book for younger kids.
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