High School Fiction
F/A Skovron, Jon.
Man Made Boy. Viking, 2013. 368p. 978-0670786206. 17.99.
The Show is not your average Broadway play; the
acts are real and the cast and crew, including Medusa, Frankenstein, and
trolls, all live underneath the theater since they can’t go out in public.
Frankenstein and his bride’s 16-year-old computer hacker son, Boy, is tired of
living hidden away. He runs away from the theater and ends up on a wild road
trip meeting other “people” like him along the way. The premise was great, but
the storyline failed. If the author had just stuck to the road trip and not
included a crazy computer virus storyline that came in and out, but ultimately
led to the conclusion of the novel, it would have been a better read. Teens who
enjoy fairytale retellings or monsters in general would still like it though.
Loren Spector, LAPL, Memorial
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