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A review by hollowspine
Husky by Justin Sayre
4.0
Husky is a coming of age story about Davis, a young man who is, of course, different. He’s trying to figure out where he belongs in his friendships now that his two close friends have started branching out and finding new people to introduce to their group. It’s especially hard with his best friend, who unlike Davis, is very popular. She’s begun hanging out with people who would never talk to Davis, girls who have spa days and boys who play football. Ugh. None of them know a thing about Opera, which is Davis’s favorite type of music. He also doesn’t understand why, just because he’s a guy, he can’t be invited to the makeover party. It’s not fair.
After summer vacation they’ll start a new school year and this year Davis knows everyone is going to be labelled and he doesn’t want to be labelled as the ‘husky’ kid.
Other things in his life are changing too. His mother seems weirdly happy and she’s started going out dressed up nice at night. Davis isn’t ready for her to move on yet, to have another man besides him in her life, but what can he do. Especially since he feels abandoned by his friends too.
Over the summer he comes to realize that even though one of his friends is the ‘pretty’ one and the other is the ‘mean’ one, they don’t want to be labelled either and he can’t just treat his friends like they can’t change either. Even his mom gets to change, at least a little bit.
It was a lovely story. Davis is figuring out so many things about himself and about his friends and life and what the future could hold, I would highly recommend it. Especially because it’s one of those extremely rare teen books that has a lot of substance to it, without having the plot revolve around a romantic relationship.
After summer vacation they’ll start a new school year and this year Davis knows everyone is going to be labelled and he doesn’t want to be labelled as the ‘husky’ kid.
Other things in his life are changing too. His mother seems weirdly happy and she’s started going out dressed up nice at night. Davis isn’t ready for her to move on yet, to have another man besides him in her life, but what can he do. Especially since he feels abandoned by his friends too.
Over the summer he comes to realize that even though one of his friends is the ‘pretty’ one and the other is the ‘mean’ one, they don’t want to be labelled either and he can’t just treat his friends like they can’t change either. Even his mom gets to change, at least a little bit.
It was a lovely story. Davis is figuring out so many things about himself and about his friends and life and what the future could hold, I would highly recommend it. Especially because it’s one of those extremely rare teen books that has a lot of substance to it, without having the plot revolve around a romantic relationship.