Review of Alice Pemberton's Bureau of Scientific Inquiry by George Allen Miller (Book 2 in the MiGilliverse Books)

Rating: 3.5 Stars (Rounded Up on Goodreads)

Disclaimer: I received a free e-galley through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

So I definitely like this book more than the first.

However, this book suffers from the way Alice is written, she honestly doesn't come off as a young woman. There's a point in the book where she's called a "teenager" and it's hinted she's pretty young in general. She just doesn't read as a super-genius teenaged girl. She doesn't read as a teen girl overall. And that is my biggest gripe about the book.

I also like that this book is in her POV, third person limited, but I think it could've stood to translate some of the film-noir narration, somehow, of book 1. That was really,, really good, and I enjoyed it.

I also much prefer Alice and her friendships to Jack/Eugene and his, I think the choice to make her a more motherly/sisterly/protective figure to Valencia was weird, but it was executed well enough that it worked out. Alice, while she wasn't written a lot like a teenager, avoided most of the pitfalls, if not all, of women written by men. Which I think is a huge credit to the author.

Definitely plan to read more books in Alice's POV.