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Gr. 9 Student Review:

This book was very graphic with the contact with a 12 year old and a young teacher. Very jumpy at points but, gets the reader attached to the problem in the book. I don't think this book can really relate to a lot of people. As a reader of this book, I think this was very different title then people would think from the title “Boy Toys” are like people that date a lot of girls. This book changes what I thought, This book was about sexual abuse.
This book starts out 5 years after the incident. as Josh Mendel the narrator of the book Close to graduating Josh is still figuring out the pieces of the past. The book takes us back to when the incident happened. When Josh started 7th grade he met the beginning of of the horrible incident . Josh always had good grades in school but when he gets Eve Sherman the history teacher that was there 2 years. Josh and Zik (Josh's best friend) talked about Eve a lot. Josh started to fall for Eve even knowing she was a teacher HIS TEACHER that didn't stop him. Josh was was always looking at Eve. He loved her hair, the way she smiled, how her hips moved. Missing the bus Josh got a ride home from Eve and this changed everything. Josh started to help Eve with a project. That lead to Josh going to her house playing her husband's xbox. This happened for a few months. Josh would make him feel at home. Eves project that Josh was helping with was done. So Josh just lied to his parents to spend time with her. Eve started to press away Josh in sexual activated, by telling him it was okay to kiss her and move from there. Josh did it because he was young and was in love with Eve. Then Josh had a party to go to with his 3 friends. Josh and Rachel played 7 minutes in heaven and josh had a flicker and ended up with Rachel's underwear.. Josh opens his mouth about eve and then a war came with Eve and Josh. Then it goes back to the present where Josh has a big baseball game and still flickering back to Eve. Josh doesn't even know what the truth is about Eve and him. If only he knew better….
This book was very detailed and graphic. This was a hard subject to write about, It was very well handled. I think this book was very good to read for any ages. This book gets you think about how can someone be so horrible but not look it. Barry Lyga the author did well on making the story realistic even though it was fiction. The way she makes the boy come back from being mentally and sexually abused is so well done.


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Boy Toy Barry Lyga Books Reviews

Boy Toy's strong point is its description of how an adult grooms a child for abuse, manipulates and pushes at boundaries until they're completely gone. Eve Sherman's actions and Josh's reactions were completely plausible, and the emotions and how it affected the rest of his life were right-on.

I liked the narration by 18-year-old Josh as he decides what to do next with his life, baseball, college, and so on. He was still a young narrator, but with a more mature eye the balance between insight he'd gained and what was still unclear to him kept my interest.

Sometimes the story went on a little too long or was paced a little slow-- I'd flip ahead and could see there was 10 or 20 more pages of pretty much the same stuff I was reading right now.

The climax of the book was also a little bit of a letdown. Josh's "I realized" moments happened almost in a vacuum, with too many internal shifts that weren't backed up by real events. I also didn't believe his interactions with the police and in court in my experience, he would have been treated much more considerately, interviewed in a medical setting by a forensic interviewer instead of grilled by cops, perhaps been allowed to testify by video deposition rather than having to talk in open court with his abuser sitting right there. This may be a small-town thing, but it didn't ring quite true to me.

Boy Toy wasn't perfect, but it was well worth reading for its emotional notes and everyday-yet-creepy portrait of child sex abuse.
I should clarify that as someone unfortunately familiar with sexual misbehavior from adults when a teenager and who experiences the OCD-caused intrusive thoughts the protagonist calls "flickers', this book bothered me significantly. However, it may not have the same effect on others. You may ask, with my history, why did I pick it up? The product description did not mention anything about abuse, only that there were two females in the protagonist's life, and a secret. I was more interested in the "decisions about college" that were described.

The book is well-written, and the sexual feelings of Josh, the main character, and his confusion are honest. However, I would hesitate to give this book to a young teen. Perhaps it would be useful as a cautionary tale, but I'm not sure. It's possible that the descriptions and the shame will be a bit too haunting to the point of scarring if the reader is less than emotionally healthy to begin with. While the ending is not all rosy and wonderful, there is some healing for Josh that a reader could possibly take hope from. Still, I suggest parents be careful and look at this book first.

As a side note, the title strikes me as too casual and flip for this story to the point of being inappropriate. However, as I said, the book is well-written and the main character is portrayed with outstanding and memorable depth. Thus, I'll probably look at this author's other work such as Fanboy and Gothgirl, although I may sit in the bookstore and leaf through it before purchasing. Also, I might recommend this book to adult reading groups comfortable discussing taboo subjects as the psychological portrayals are gripping and affecting.
Gr. 9 Student Review

This book was very graphic with the contact with a 12 year old and a young teacher. Very jumpy at points but, gets the reader attached to the problem in the book. I don't think this book can really relate to a lot of people. As a reader of this book, I think this was very different title then people would think from the title “Boy Toys” are like people that date a lot of girls. This book changes what I thought, This book was about sexual abuse.
This book starts out 5 years after the incident. as Josh Mendel the narrator of the book Close to graduating Josh is still figuring out the pieces of the past. The book takes us back to when the incident happened. When Josh started 7th grade he met the beginning of of the horrible incident . Josh always had good grades in school but when he gets Eve Sherman the history teacher that was there 2 years. Josh and Zik (Josh's best friend) talked about Eve a lot. Josh started to fall for Eve even knowing she was a teacher HIS TEACHER that didn't stop him. Josh was was always looking at Eve. He loved her hair, the way she smiled, how her hips moved. Missing the bus Josh got a ride home from Eve and this changed everything. Josh started to help Eve with a project. That lead to Josh going to her house playing her husband's xbox. This happened for a few months. Josh would make him feel at home. Eves project that Josh was helping with was done. So Josh just lied to his parents to spend time with her. Eve started to press away Josh in sexual activated, by telling him it was okay to kiss her and move from there. Josh did it because he was young and was in love with Eve. Then Josh had a party to go to with his 3 friends. Josh and Rachel played 7 minutes in heaven and josh had a flicker and ended up with Rachel's underwear.. Josh opens his mouth about eve and then a war came with Eve and Josh. Then it goes back to the present where Josh has a big baseball game and still flickering back to Eve. Josh doesn't even know what the truth is about Eve and him. If only he knew better….
This book was very detailed and graphic. This was a hard subject to write about, It was very well handled. I think this book was very good to read for any ages. This book gets you think about how can someone be so horrible but not look it. Barry Lyga the author did well on making the story realistic even though it was fiction. The way she makes the boy come back from being mentally and sexually abused is so well done.