I found this book interesting for what WASN’T written.
It’s my understanding that young boys were kept on ships, back in the time this book takes place, because they were effeminate and would be raped regularly. So the fact that this boy (17 years old but still referred to as a boy) is sold and then kept on a ship … becomes very good friends with an older man … all very interesting.

I did not read it as a “young boy, coming of age story” but as a “young boy kidnapped and groomed into being a perfect sex slave”. Interesting.

Adrianne ( )