The Friday Society

The Friday Society by Adrienne Kress is steampunk mystery written for teens and telling the story of a trio of girls each working as a “girl Friday” in this vaguely London, vaguely late 1800’s novel.  The book was sort of cute but I couldn’t really get into it.  I had no empathy for the characters and, in fact, kind of wanted to give one of them a slap for being so ridiculous.  Furthermore the completely modern use of idiom (things were awesome, guys were hot) was jarring in a novel set in the 1800’s even though it isn’t really OUR 1800’s. 

All in all I won’t be picking up subsequent titles by this author so not recommended.