A review by rastephe
Alex and the Ironic Gentleman by Adrienne Kress

2.0

I guess I'd have liked this if I were 8. It had potential but went off on very long random tangents that were entirely unrelated to the main plot for, as far as I could tell, no reason but extreme quirkiness. A kid might find that funny and endearing, I suppose. I also really wished the author had given more life to the main character. I felt like I knew oodles about the life of, say, a pirate that was introduced in a single paragraph only to die at the end of it, but knew next to nothing about the heroine apart from her love of dental hygiene. The main redeeming value for me was from a feminist standpoint.