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Boy Toy was disturbing and heartbreaking and completely unexpected. Five years ago, Josh had a sexual relationship with his History teacher. He was just twelve when it happened, but now he's getting ready to graduate from high school and she's being released from prison early. Josh has no idea how to feel about that. His parents are concerned, his friends are concerned, but Josh is confused. He's never told anyone exactly what happened. In fact, he's avoided most social contact other than his best friend. So when he finally does tell, he realizes something: he was molested.

I know what you're thinking, how could Josh not know that he was molested when he was there. I was wondering this same thing when I went into Boy Toy. Maybe it was repressed memories, or he wasn't conscious of the events. But no. It goes beyond that, and it kind of broke my heart to see him realize this. Josh never fully opened up about what took place between him and Eve; not to his therapist, not to the police. Nobody knew how the relationship really got started, because he kept that to himself. I can't say that I was shocked when the truth finally came out. I more had a moment where I felt kind of sick, because Josh had no idea for all this time. He's been harboring a lot of guilt for something that wasn't his fault.

Boy Toy kind of alternates between past and present to give us the full story. It opens up with when Josh's life changed forever, which is not when the affair started. It was an incident with another girl that really showed just how damaged Josh was from what his teacher did to him. Then it goes through him trying to sort out how he feels about her being free. Will he run into her? Does he want to run into her? Then he tells the story of when he first saw Eve, up until when he last saw her. And OMG, it was...I don't even know. It's not like she came right out and seduced him. She used school work as a way to gain his trust as well as his parents', and then things just kind of developed as they spent more and more time alone together.

There were times when I felt like Eve really did care about Josh, but then I had to mentally slap myself! No! She is twenty-four years old and he's twelve! That is creepy and disgusting! Sure Josh looks older and he's more mature, but he's a kid! And she was training him to be her perfect lover (seriously, she teaches him EVERYTHING)! And now Josh is all kinds of nervous about dating girls, because all he knows is what Eve liked and he's afraid that if he starts anything physical, it'll be the wrong thing, and the girl will be scared off. And it's just awful!

Boy Toy made me so uncomfortable at times, because Josh, as a young boy, really had feelings for Eve and she took advantage of him. Maybe she loved him, maybe she just wanted a living sex toy. I don't know. But everything about their situation was screwed up, even if it was consensual. My only complaint is that I got really annoyed with Josh constantly updating us on his baseball statistics. He's a math genius and a great baseball player, but it got old, fast. Other than that, this one was pretty fantastic, in an unsettling, eye-opening kind of way.


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Boy Toy Barry Lyga Books Reviews

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.
Boy Toy was disturbing and heartbreaking and completely unexpected. Five years ago, Josh had a sexual relationship with his History teacher. He was just twelve when it happened, but now he's getting ready to graduate from high school and she's being released from prison early. Josh has no idea how to feel about that. His parents are concerned, his friends are concerned, but Josh is confused. He's never told anyone exactly what happened. In fact, he's avoided most social contact other than his best friend. So when he finally does tell, he realizes something he was molested.

I know what you're thinking, how could Josh not know that he was molested when he was there. I was wondering this same thing when I went into Boy Toy. Maybe it was repressed memories, or he wasn't conscious of the events. But no. It goes beyond that, and it kind of broke my heart to see him realize this. Josh never fully opened up about what took place between him and Eve; not to his therapist, not to the police. Nobody knew how the relationship really got started, because he kept that to himself. I can't say that I was shocked when the truth finally came out. I more had a moment where I felt kind of sick, because Josh had no idea for all this time. He's been harboring a lot of guilt for something that wasn't his fault.

Boy Toy kind of alternates between past and present to give us the full story. It opens up with when Josh's life changed forever, which is not when the affair started. It was an incident with another girl that really showed just how damaged Josh was from what his teacher did to him. Then it goes through him trying to sort out how he feels about her being free. Will he run into her? Does he want to run into her? Then he tells the story of when he first saw Eve, up until when he last saw her. And OMG, it was...I don't even know. It's not like she came right out and seduced him. She used school work as a way to gain his trust as well as his parents', and then things just kind of developed as they spent more and more time alone together.

There were times when I felt like Eve really did care about Josh, but then I had to mentally slap myself! No! She is twenty-four years old and he's twelve! That is creepy and disgusting! Sure Josh looks older and he's more mature, but he's a kid! And she was training him to be her perfect lover (seriously, she teaches him EVERYTHING)! And now Josh is all kinds of nervous about dating girls, because all he knows is what Eve liked and he's afraid that if he starts anything physical, it'll be the wrong thing, and the girl will be scared off. And it's just awful!

Boy Toy made me so uncomfortable at times, because Josh, as a young boy, really had feelings for Eve and she took advantage of him. Maybe she loved him, maybe she just wanted a living sex toy. I don't know. But everything about their situation was screwed up, even if it was consensual. My only complaint is that I got really annoyed with Josh constantly updating us on his baseball statistics. He's a math genius and a great baseball player, but it got old, fast. Other than that, this one was pretty fantastic, in an unsettling, eye-opening kind of way.