The Kitchen Boy is a beautiful and lyrical tale of high adventure in the time of the Revolution... highly recommended... -- Atlantis Magazine
"...Alexander transforms a now-familiar and bloody era of history-the Bolshevik Revolution and the Romanov massacre-into a suspenseful and richly layered account of a family in deadly
peril..." -- Library Journal, January 2003
The Kitchen Boy is a fascinating and suspenseful glimpse of a tempestuous but shadowy period in Russian history -- BookPage January 2003