Review: What a Boy Needs

What a Boy Needs by Nyrae Dawn

My rating: 5 of 5 stars



An emotionally raw deeply insightful follow up to the excellent WHAT A BOY WANTS is that rare thing, a book that is a sequel, and yet better than the excellent original.

This book follows a different one of our four main protagonists and lets us get to know him. I'm really surprised by these books in that so little YA fiction is done from a male point of view and these both are. I am also surprised by how well Ms. dawn writes young men. In most YA fiction the females are much more complete characters, and the males tend to be stereotypical shadows. Ms. Dawn breaks that mold, no she smashes it to bits. She gets the inner voices and demons of a young man perfectly spot on. Yet she doesn't do this at the expense of her female characters.

This book, like the first in the set contains people as believable as your best friends when you were a late teen, and conflicts and problems as real as your own memories.

Ms. Dawn joins my list of WHY the digital publishing revolution is changing everything, allowing incredible talents who might not have been initially noticed by the grey suited soulless corporate publishing machine, to find an audience.

This will be a name that is well known before too long. She is gifted.



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