A review by authorjoannawhite
Boy Toy by Barry Lyga

3.0

A good story well written but with a few issues I did enjoy this story and feel like the situation of a 12 year old boy being molested by a female teacher was well written and handled well as well as offered insights as to how a situation like that could happen (since we often see stories about male teachers to female students but not the reversal..

That being said, I do not understand baseball so I felt this book got way too detailed and had some unnecessary exposition when it came to baseball. Some of the baseball stuff was necesand well written (I enjoyed the big game at the end ) but there were others that was just too exposition heavy (even a whole chapter toward the beginning). I also hated Rachel's character and felt she treated him in a toxic way (tricking and manipulating him into dates and forcing him to open up when he didn't feel ready and forcing him to do things he didn't want. Also got bothered by the sexual content but most was necessary to the story.