Uses For Boys by Erica Lorraine Scheidt | Rating: ★★★★★“I belong here, I tell Toy. I’m hungry for every city block. Every brick building. Every crowded intersection. Electric. I feel brand new.”
From the moment I opened this book, I was drawn and hooked into the story. It’s one of my favorite novels that represents a sort of coming of age as well as the exploration of sexuality. There’s something very meaningful in the way that Erica writes the story. In its flow, there is something just so appealing to the story.
I read Uses For Boys ages ago when I saw the summary for it and saw the little shout out that Ellen Hopkins gave it. I will never, ever regret picking it up and giving it a go. Although there were many aspects of the story I didn’t relate to, and there were many moments you feel uncomfortable for the narrator, it still managed to touch my heart and make me feel as though I know Anna and her mind.
Which is, if you ask me, an open door to something great.
We learn from the start that Anna had once had a decent relationship with her mother when she was younger. But soon through her mothers relationships and inability to really listen, there is this wall up between the two of them. Anna feels the distance and the heartbreak in her mothers constant working and relationships with varied men.
