The Boys is the kind of novel you wait for without knowing it.
While reading it you are, in a way, under a spell. Why? Because suddenly you realize that it’s a book about all the questions teenagers ask without asking the adults. You are literally in their heads, you breathe with them, you walk and think with the three girls–their joys, their silences and their pains are yours.
How to be a girl? How to be a boy? How to be friends? How to love? How make others love you? If you have the power to be someone else, how would you use this gift?
This is the very moving story of Kim–the novel of Kim–who will understand, page after page, event after event, that the real question is not about acting like a boy or a girl but how to be you.
In a very difficult world for teenagers, The Boys is a brilliant, smart, wonderful novel about loneliness, friendship, love and desire, a perfect novel about how to be true to yourself–written in a way you’ve never read before.
Shaïne Cassim, editor of Wiz-Albin Michel, France.

 Pojkarna is an incredibly strong and well-written young-adult-novel. It touches some important and well-known topics, but in a new and very exciting way. Besides being a good reading experience, it is also a book that is fuel for thought and where there is a lot to discuss for example in an educational context.
Anette Øster, HØST & SØN, ROSINANTE

This story is unique, magical, bold and surprising. It has a poetic style with captivating aspects of indecency and rudeness reminding me of the bestseller “Light, Light, Light” by Vilja-Tuulia Huotarinen. I love it.
Sirja Kunelius, KARISTO OY PUBLISHERS

Without doubt a worthy and interesting August Prize Winner.

Aftonbladet

Surprise of the year: The Boys /… / Completely unexpected and well executed.

Smålandsposten

Brave fantasy with existential questions /… / Well done to Jessica Schiefauer for not choosing the simple way.
Sydsvenskan


The style is unadorned, with powerful metaphors. The language is hard and soft; aware of the ferocity of a flower.
Dagens Nyheter

In a glowing and contemporary saga about love, death and rebirth [Jessica Shiefauer] helps her three teenage Orlando characters free themselves and explore the limits of the self. Together, and on their own, the three characters explore their genders, their bodies and their desires, beyond established boundaries. During the day they are “the girls”: the maladjusted, the exposed, the constantly observed. When night falls they become “the boys”: the anonymous observers.
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..the borders of existence are – and must be permitted to be – so much larger than the volume restricted by the skin.
Kajsa Berggren, Expressen