"Playworld" is a coming-of-age novel that centers on a consequential year in the life of Griffin, a teenage boy and child actor in New York. This was an easy and enjoyable read. The language is straightforward and the plot is compelling. The writer did a good job of giving readers an idea of who Griffin is and how is mind works as he moves through the world and its challenges. The writer also did a great job of communicating a sense of time and place.

A lot happens in this book, and I wonder if all of it was necessary to include. Because there is so much going on over a quick time frame, it was a struggle to focus and follow the details and the main plot points as they began to to come together, and the ending felt a bit rushed.

Thank you NetGalley and Knopf Doubleday for the advance copy in exchange for my honest review.

This book is very well researched and well written exquisitely, at the beginning of the book I was hopeful that the book would be easy to connect with - although I felt connected to the family at first this book (and the author portrays) parts of the book I felt were to be hard to understand. The age difference is very large at the start of the book, for me personally, the fact being that the female character being married but yet having relations with a much younger male I found it hard to stomach at times. But looking past the problems I previously mentioned, the writing is very brilliant, Such a fantastic novel!

A very interesting storyline. I enjoyed the writing style and stuck with the characters to see what their outcomes would be. Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC.