A review by seanquistador
Infernal Devices by Philip Reeve

3.0

Holy character assassination, Philip. I'd always considered this more Hester's series than Tom's, but Hester's misanthropy and hostility reach a screeching teakettle boil in this one. It's unfortunate to see after Reeve had made her an unlikely hero in the first story: an unattractive, unhappy survivor of her mother's murder taken in and raised by an equally unlikely mentor, a wise and skeptical survivor who delivers a heaping dose of reality to an Municipal-Darwin indoctrinated Tom Natsworthy.

I'm not sure if this was deliberate or just the way the plot carried Reeve, but it's unfortunate and disappointing to say the least.