Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson

Wow! An intense novel.

I'm surprised with all the fantasy and werewolf craze this book hasn't made a comeback. It was published a little too early to match with the shape-shifter craze.

A slim but excellent portrait of the impact of sexual assault on an adolescent boy. People tend to forget that men can be raped too, and not just in prison. When it happens, the shame and the sense of isolation are usually much worse than it would be for a woman. I thought Grady's misery and silence was very well-handled, and the supporting characters were also fully fleshed out and not just flat indistinguishable paper dolls like they are in a lot of YA books about high school students.