A review by lawbooks600
Boys Don't Knit by T.S. Easton

3.0

5.5/10, this was a book that I couldn't really describe in words other than the fact that it was a bit of an interesting one, to say the least, but that doesn't mean that I enjoyed it. The plot was essentially a mixed bag with some good parts and some bad and there were more of the latter parts than of the former, now where do I start? The story begins with the main character Ben Fletcher or Ben for short who committed a crime and conveniently instead of going to juvie, he participates in a program to apparently make him a better person in which he takes up a hobby and writes in a diary. He chose knitting much to his father's chagrin. He could've picked anything else and he chose that hobby. Surprising, but okay since that was what set the book up and I was reading on to see what would happen. I was quite shocked when in just less than 300 pages he went from not even knowing how to knit to knitting well after a few days, in the end, he won a knitting championship and he even beat people more experienced than him which is possible but highly unlikely. I think Ben did all of that just to get a girl that he liked a lot named Megan Hooper but I think that should have been cut out as well as the other mature bits like the racy double-meaning jokes and the part where his friend wrote a knockoff Fifty Shades of Grey just for money or whatever which completely missed the point of the book. If I could describe Boys Don't Knit (in Public) by T.S. Easton in one sentence it was a mess. There's a sequel to this book called An English Boy in New York but I doubt that my library will get this book nor will I read it if they get it since this book is 9 years old now. If you like realistic books you might enjoy this one though there are better ones you can read like Where the Road Leads Us by Robin Reul.