A review by bibliobrandie
What About Will by Ellen Hopkins

3.0

It seems like everyone thinks they can write a novel in verse but not everyone succeeds at it. This didn't read like poetry to me, more like short sentences with a lot of white pages. Themes include traumatic brain injury, sports, misogyny in sports, divorce, guilt, opioid addiction, absent parents, and depression. It was a lot and I have to say for the first 300 pages, kind of a mess. Those last 60 were great though, when the focus was on Trace and Will and the addiction and the family coming together. I wish the author would have stuck more to that storyline, which seems dear to her heart given the author's note in the end. I enjoyed the secondary story of his friend who is a girl and wants to play baseball on the boys team, but it felt like a completely different story.