sampayn3 's review for:

Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan

4.0

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Two boys, two best friends, are joined together by an unlikely kiss. Craig and Harry never thought they’d share a kiss again. Once a couple, young and in love, they had drifted apart. But that doesn’t stop them from attempting to set the world record for the longest. Over those thirty-something hours connected by their lips, something is communicated which words alone could never say. Their kiss is not alone in this novel: there is Peter and Neil, who are a couple, Avery and Ryan, who have only just met. Then there’s Cooper, who is alone and unsure about intimacy all together. After reading David Levithan’s heartening collection of short stories, How They Met, I endeavoured into his latest novel. Although Two Boys Kissing may paper like a fairly self-evident novel, it does not merely untie the couples themselves. Friends, families, and enemies are addressed through its dissection of love - regardless of gender of sexuality.