JCPL Teens

Will Grayson, Will Grayson is about two boys named Will Grayson. The first Will Grayson tries to keep his head down but his best friend is the fabulous Tiny Cooper ("the world's largest person who is really, really gay, and also the world's gayest person who is really, really large") and nothing is calm around Tiny. The other Will Grayson is dealing with depression but has one bright spot in his life - Isaac, a boy he met online. But arranging to meet Isaac reveals that the boy of his dreams doesn't really exist and Will #2's world is crashing. That's how the two Will Graysons meet - entirely by accident - in downtown Chicago. And Tiny is there with Will #1 so he and Will #2 meet too. And love blossoms. Meanwhile Will #1 decides he likes his friend Jane right when she gets a boyfriend.

Sounds complicated, hm? It is, but it's fun too. And I haven't even mentioned the best part of all yet! Tiny Cooper is putting on a musical about his life and loves. And he has loved quite a few boys in his life! All the characters agree the musical is brilliant, but it's clear from the snippets of song lyrics that both Wills put into their accounts that it is really, really bad. It's so bad, it's funny. That was the part I enjoyed most of all about this book.

If you enjoy:

• a good high school romance (for both hetero- and homosexuals), or
• a story about a musical, or
• coming of age stories, or
• stories told by two characters in alternating chapters, or
• just a good people-in-high-school story

then this is for you!

Have you read it? What did you think?  Leave your own review in comments.