Guardian Unlimited Books | Review | Puppy love
Lucy Ellman, reviewing Daniel Handler's adult novel, Adverbs, thinks it better suited for an adolescent readership:
Handler is better known for his Lemony Snicket children's books, and his wild grabs at insight and avuncular wisdom in Adverbs would better suit the American junior high market. The cute faux awkwardness, the pedantry proposed as mateyness, the tricksy reminders of the narrator's role, combined with ominous stories of young women going into the woods alone or getting into cars with strangers, and the requisite allusions to 9/11, all connive at seeming cool, timely, significant, memorable: teenage stuff...
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