

Gonzales’s diverse cast of characters is one of the book’s strengths. Because I have read so many different versions of this, I found it predictable and difficult to truly get into. While I enjoyed most of it, I didn’t find the story that original. I found this story to be fun, but it is also quite complex and tackles many heavy topics such as terminal illness. When Ollie moves to North Carolina permanently, he finds himself at Will’s school and discovers that Will is not out yet.

This book follows Ollie and Will who had a summer fling that quickly ended when Will stopped replying to Ollie’s texts. Review: Only Mostly Devastated by Sophie Gonzales This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. ❃ I received this book for free from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Now Will is faced with the biggest challenge of his life: follow his heart and risk his friendships, or stay firmly in the closet and lose what he loves most. While his summer was spent being very much himself, back at school he’s simply known as one of the varsity basketball guys. Will is more than a little shocked to see Ollie the evening of that first day of school.

Dreams that are crushed when he sees Will at a school party and finds that the sweet and affectionate (and comfortably queer) guy he knew from summer isn’t the same one attending Collinswood High. But when Ollie’s aunt's health takes a turn for the worse and his family decides to stay in North Carolina to take care of her, Ollie lets himself hope this fling can grow to something more. Ollie and Will were meant to be a summer fling-casual, fun, and done. THE HOMO SAPIENS AGENDA meets CLUELESS in this boy-meets-boy spin on Grease
