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Alex & Alex (2013)

by Alyssa Brugman(Favorite Author)

3.87 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Young Adult Fiction

publisher

EDT

review 1: Alex As Well was a very different book to any that I'm used to. I didn't know what to expect from the story line, but I found that the way Brugman left the rest of Alex's life to the readers' imagination quite interesting and clever. I also liked the way Brugman managed to use many different opinions about the situation by using an internet chat room from Heather's point of view. I also found the concept interesting, challenging and entertaining.
review 2: Alex As Well deals with teenage intersex issues and I can't help but compare it to the recently published Golden Boy, which deals with the same subject. Whereas Golden Boy dealt a lot with the medical side of things and was very honest and realistic about being intersex, Alex as Well reads more like a teen no... morevel. Seen from the point of view of the fourteen year old Alex, the novel can sometimes read a little immature. The adult characters are portrayed as having slightly more depth than a caricature, which ruins any chance of getting a well rounded picture of what life as an intersex person is like. Instead, it pretty much reads as any other teen "woe-me-the-world-is-against-me" novel, the only difference being that the main character can't decide if she's a boy or a girl. Then again, what she goes through is awful and although the novel could have done with a 100 more pages or so, it is an entertaining read that helps create awareness for a subject that is still very controversial. less

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