'WIll Grayson, Will Grayson' by John Green and David Levithan: Review

One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, two teens—both named Will Grayson—are about to cross paths. As their worlds collide and intertwine, the Will Graysons find their lives going in new and unexpected directions, building toward romantic turns-of-heart and the epic production of history’s most fabulous high school musical.

Hilarious, poignant, and deeply insightful, John Green and David Levithan’s collaborative novel is brimming with a double helping of the heart and humor that have won both of them legions of faithful fans. 
-Goodreads Summary.

'Will Grayson, will grayson' is a contemporary young-adult novel written by two popular authors, John Green and David Levithan. Having heard great things about this book, I ultimately decided to pick it up, even if I wouldn't usually pick this type of book up. This book was really funny and was a very quick-read, yes it did follow the 'John Green' formula a bit, but I felt it was necessary for some characters. I was very surprised by David Levithan's chapters (if you didn't know, all the odd chapters are from John Green's Will Grayson, whilst the even chapters are from David Levithan's will grayson), at first I thought that Levithan's will grayson was an annoying emo teenager who 'hated everything' and wanted to 'cut himself', which at first annoyed me quite a bit, but as the novel progressed onwards, you see his character develop massively. John Green's Will Grayson was very much like all his other main characters but he was still quite relatable. I was quite annoyed about the character Jane though, she is basically the same as all of John Green's other female characters (pixie manic dream girl, quirky, hipster, too cool for everyone else) and it was like reading the same thing over again. But I still really enjoyed John's section, especially towards to end. The plot of this story was nothing really special, but I think this was because this book is mainly a 'character novel' in which it is mainly about the characters developing. The character of Tiny Cooper, who is rather 'larger than life' was really fun to read about, he brought all the humour to the book and he brought the book to life. I did enjoy the rather open-ending we got to the book because although it isn't a cliffhanger, it lets the reader imagine the ending for themselves. Overall the novel did have a few problems but it was an entertaining feel-good novel that was a very good book to get me out of a reading slump. I am looking forward to reading other books by David Levithan, and I'm very excited to read the remaining books I haven't read by John Green. In conclusion I am giving this book 4 out of 5 stars.