Only Mostly Devastated: A Novel

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda meets Clueless in this boy-meets-boy spin on Grease, from NATIONALLY and INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING author Sophie GonzalesA 2021 Rainbow Book List SelectionA 2021 Southern Book Prize finalistA Goodreads Choice Awards 2020 finalistA Junior Library Guild Gold Standard SelectionAn Indie Next PickOnly Mostly Devastated is the kind of book I wish existed when my kids were youngera charming, funny, laugh-out-loud teen romance that reminds all readers love comes in a multitude of flavors, and they are ALL sweet. Jodi Picoult, New York Times-bestselling author of Small Great Things and A Spark of LightA delightful, heartwarming, heartrending story about family, love, friendship, and living your most authentic life. I couldnt put it down. New York Times-bestselling author Sandhya MenonWill Tavares is the dream summer flinghes fun, affectionate, kindbut just when Ollie thinks hes found his Happily Ever After, summer vacation ends and Will stops texting Ollie back. Now Ollie is one prince short of his fairytale ending, and to complicate the fairytale 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 its the same school Will goes toexcept Ollie finds that the sweet, comfortably queer guy he knew from summer isnt the same one attending Collinswood High. This Will is a class clown, closetedand, to be honest, a bit of a jerk.Ollie has no intention of pining after a guy who clearly isnt 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 Ollies 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.