(Arc Book Review) Only Mostly Devastated by Sophie Gonzales

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Title: Only Mostly Devastated

Author: Sophie Gonzales

Page count: 302

Published: March 3rd, 2020

Publisher: Wedesday Books

Genre: LGBTQ+

Received: From the Publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 4/5

Will Tavares is the dream summer fling ― he’s fun, affectionate, kind ― but just when Ollie thinks he’s found his Happily Ever After, summer vacation ends and Will stops texting Ollie back. Now Ollie is one prince short of his fairy tale ending, and to complicate the fairy tale further, a family emergency sees Ollie uprooted and enrolled at a new school across the country. Which he minds a little less when he realizes it’s the same school Will goes to… except Ollie finds that the sweet, comfortably queer guy he knew from summer isn’t the same one attending Collinswood High. This Will is a class clown, closeted ― and, to be honest, a bit of a jerk.

Ollie has no intention of pining after a guy who clearly isn’t ready for a relationship, especially since this new, bro-y jock version of Will seems to go from hot to cold every other week. But then Will starts “coincidentally” popping up in every area of Ollie’s life, from music class to the lunch table, and Ollie finds his resolve weakening.

The last time he gave Will his heart, Will handed it back to him trampled and battered. Ollie would have to be an idiot to trust him with it again.

Right? Right.

SIMON VS. THE HOMO SAPIENS AGENDA meets CLUELESS in this boy-meets-boy spin on Grease

When I first read that It was inspired by Grease, I had to get my hands on this because it is one of my favourite movies of all time. This book was amazing, and I couldn’t get enough of it.
This book is set in high school just like grease and told from Ollie’s POV and loved it, even thought maybe a few others like Will would have been good but that’s just IMO just so that I could love the story more.
Ollie and Will are two boys that had a summer fling together and when it ended Ollie was supposed to go spend the summer in NC and go back to Cali but that didn’t end up happening because of family stuff so he had to say in NC a little while longer. When he starts school, it happens to be then one that Will attends.
Ollie is excited to know they are at the same school but there is one downside Will hasn’t come out to everyone yet, so he doesn’t want people to know. The only one that knows happens to be Ollie.
Ollie ends up meeting an amazing group of people, I wish that I had such amazing friends like him. Niamh wants to be a plus size model which I find amazing because there need to be more plus size woman in the modeling industry. Ollie also ends up joining a band and its perfect for him because he has such an amazing passion for music. I loved the little flashbacks that we got to know what happened with there summer fling.
This book was just amazing it has all the feels that you want in a book and more. I highly recommend this book if you are a fan of Grease or just because you like reading LGBT books. I don’t think that this book will disappoint

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