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A review by madamereads
Alex and the Ironic Gentleman by Adrienne Kress
1.0
Have you ever had a really weird dream?
The kind of dream that starts of fairly normal. Say, you're in a museum. Nothing crazy about that. But then you break a museum rule and some old ladies start stabbing you with pens as punishment. And all you want to do is to get away from those stab-happy crones. Then a little while later everything abruptly changes and now you're on a 20's themed train ride where everyone takes naps and has amnesia, trying to escape a scarf-wearing scary man with no ears or nose, all while another creepy man is trying to suck out your soul so he can make it into champagne. Also pirates kidnapped your 6th grade teacher and you're trying to save him. And now the old ladies are stabbing you again!
Crazy, creepy, CRAZY stuff.
Well, lo and behold all of those things actually occur in this book. It's just like an unsettling, disconnected dream. And I pretty much loathed it.
If you are into Alice and Wonderland or magic realism, this may be the book for you.
But it was definitely not the book for me.
The kind of dream that starts of fairly normal. Say, you're in a museum. Nothing crazy about that. But then you break a museum rule and some old ladies start stabbing you with pens as punishment. And all you want to do is to get away from those stab-happy crones. Then a little while later everything abruptly changes and now you're on a 20's themed train ride where everyone takes naps and has amnesia, trying to escape a scarf-wearing scary man with no ears or nose, all while another creepy man is trying to suck out your soul so he can make it into champagne. Also pirates kidnapped your 6th grade teacher and you're trying to save him. And now the old ladies are stabbing you again!
Crazy, creepy, CRAZY stuff.
Well, lo and behold all of those things actually occur in this book. It's just like an unsettling, disconnected dream. And I pretty much loathed it.
If you are into Alice and Wonderland or magic realism, this may be the book for you.
But it was definitely not the book for me.