eleellis's review
4.0
The Boy by Paul Heatley follows teenager Jake through his day to day meanderings as a teen boy growing up poor in a trailer park while living with his party around the clock father and his father's new sexually teasing girlfriend. Jake is afflicted with typical adolescent hormonal pressures while still haunted by the sudden departure of his birth mother years prior.
Heatley's writing allows the reader to develop sympathy toward Jake and to root for a positive outcome for him, if possible.
After reading Heatley's The Motel Whore and An Eye For An Eye, one never can predict exactly how a Heatley story will go - and that is a good thing because Heatley is the type of writer not afraid to do the unexpected to his characters.
The Boy is graphic, but not as graphic as Heatley's other works. His writing also grows on the reader and is wonderfully descriptive without being wordy.
Heatley's writing allows the reader to develop sympathy toward Jake and to root for a positive outcome for him, if possible.
After reading Heatley's The Motel Whore and An Eye For An Eye, one never can predict exactly how a Heatley story will go - and that is a good thing because Heatley is the type of writer not afraid to do the unexpected to his characters.
The Boy is graphic, but not as graphic as Heatley's other works. His writing also grows on the reader and is wonderfully descriptive without being wordy.
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