Boy Meets Boy, and they didn’t think twice.

Posted at April 15, 2010

I recently finished reading David Levithan’s Boy Meets Boy, so I thought I’d quickly share my thought on it, you know, as kind of a little review :)

First and foremost, it’s a good book. It’s not an earth shattering experience, but it’s a good book. If you like a light read.

You see, the book is not as light a read as your classic train station travel romance book, but it’s no Looking For Alaska either. It’s somewhere in between…

The plot lines are pretty obvious, and yes it’s a gay story *woohoo, burn down the house people* but when it all comes down to it, it’s a pretty traditional story line.

Boy meets boy, ex boyfriend shows up, friends don’t approve, friendship under pressure, all ends well. I’m pretty sure you’ve read a story like this before… If you can read of course. And no, that’s not offensive because people who actually can’t read don’t know I made this snarky remark just now.

It might seem now that I didn’t really like the book, but I actually really do… Although it might be such a ‘traditional’ book, it manages to capture you and take you along the journey of Paul (the main character), something that’s not all that easy when it comes to traditional story lines.

The book is written in a very active manner, which engages you as the reader to keep on turning them pages, and hey, isn’t that what books are made for? Ebooks aside of course.

When it comes to characters, Paul is in my opinion not the most notable one – although he’s the main character – but Kyle is. This might seem a bit weird, since Kyle is a side character – the ex boyfriend – but it’s his emotional process that glues the different parts of the story together. Which is good, because sometimes the story tends to get a bit too mushy-mushy and that’s when Kyle comes in. I guess going a bit more in depth with the side characters would have been a good thing, as it is sometimes a bit unclear why certain people do certain things (e.g. Amber calling Tony for Paul, even though they don’t know each other at all) and it’s times like that that the reason ‘but Paul is popular and everyone kinda likes him’ falls a bit short… Same goes for the school scenes where Paul seems to run the school, even though he’s just a sophomore. It just doesn’t make sense at times… if you try to read between the lines.

So in conclusion, should you read this book?

Yes, you should, if you like an easy-to-read book that’s engaging without going too literary on you, and you don’t mind the gay-themed storyline.
No, if you expect more from a book than a simple storyline where you don’t need to think things through twice.

Would I recommend it? I actually would, because we can all use that easy-read from time to time, be it during lunch break, or while lying in the sun.

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