I really enjoyed his friendships with the girls who he befriends on his first day of school and I loved how he saw through their tough exteriors and helped soothe their insecurities. He’s your everyday kind-hearted but slightly awkward guy who happens to be gay, and he just gives 100% of himself to everything, including babysitting his cousins and playing bass in his band. He had such a beautiful heart and I loved reading from his perspective. Especially since Will keeps on ghosting him…ĮDIT: omg, I just found out that this was a Grease retelling and I can totally see it now! I can’t believe I missed it before… The Will at Collinswood High is a bit of a jerk and isn’t the kind of person who Ollie would want to trust with his heart again. When Ollie transfers to his new school in North Carolina, he realises that Will also attends the school but this Will is nothing like the Will he got to know over the summer. Unbeknownst to the both of them, Ollie ends up staying in North Carolina with his parents in order to further help out his Uncle Roy, as Aunt Linda’s condition starts to deteriorate. He strikes up a romance with Will, who stops communicating with him once the summer is over. Ollie, who is from California, had spent the summer in North Carolina helping babysit his younger cousins as his Aunt Linda battles with cancer. This novel starts at the end of summer break. I enjoyed the themes, the characters and the writing immensely and I’m keen to pick up Sophie Gonzales’s debut novel to see how I get along with that one. It was lighthearted and adorable, but also explored some complex and serious themes, including loss and sexual identity. Only Mostly Devastated was such a cute and heartfelt contemporary novel about grief, family, friendship and identity. Ollie would have to be an idiot to trust him with it again. The last time he gave Will his heart, Will handed it back to him trampled and battered.
But as Will starts ‘coincidentally’ popping up in every area of Ollie’s life, from music class to the lunch table, Ollie finds his resolve weakening. Ollie has no intention of pining after a guy who clearly isn’t ready for a relationship. This Will is a class clown, closeted-and, to be honest, a bit of a jerk. To complicate the fairytale further, a family emergency sees Ollie uprooted and enrolled at a new school across the country-Will’s school-where Ollie finds that the sweet, affectionate and comfortably queer guy he knew from summer isn’t the same one attending Collinswood High. But once summer’s ended, Will stops texting him back, and Ollie finds himself one prince short of a fairytale ending. When Ollie meets his dream guy, Will, over summer break, he thinks he’s found his Happily Ever After. Genres: Contemporary, Diversity, LGBT, Romance, Young AdultĪmazon | Book Depository | Publisher | Angus & Robertson | Booktopia | Barnes & Noble
Only Mostly Devastated by Sophie Gonzales
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