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Will Grayson, Will Grayson is a book I never expected to love. In fact, it is a book I never even expected to like. But my love of John Green drew me towards it, and I 'd left it untouched in my bag on holiday until I had no more books left to read. Will Grayson, Will Grayson is written by two authors – John Green and David Levithan. When I finished the book, I presumed well-spoken and capital-letter-using Will Grayson was written by John Green and the other, more depressed Will Grayson was written by David Levithan. But I was wrong – I 'd presumed the first Will Grayson was written by John Green because that 's the way he talks in his videos on YouTube. But surely it shows just how great Green 's characterisation is in that he is able to fully immerse himself in his protagonists to the point where his readers don 't even recognise him behind the words. I didn 't even think that much of the authors when reading, I was so fully immersed in the two Will Grayson 's minds, and how alike but totally different they are. …show more content…

So simple, and yet such a brilliant girl to be involved in a book; she wasn 't one who wore a ton of makeup or short skirts. She was great. YA Fiction needs more girls like that. I would thoroughly recommend Will Grayson, Will Grayson to anyone over the age of 13. There is an incredulous amount of foul language in the book (which I won 't criticise, because I don 't think the authors would have stayed true to their characters if they hadn 't have swearing in there). I 'm so happy I read Will Grayson, Will Grayson. Reading it was an absolutely fantastic decision, and would be for anyone, gay or straight, because that 's not even why you should read the book or the main focus of it. It 's a beautiful and almost reckless but sweet story of emotion. 5/5.

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