a Great Books Marquee selection of The Word on the Street Toronto 2017
- “Lushly gorgeous … shockingly clever and startlingly gorgeous.” —Publishers Weekly starred review
- “A series of reveries about storytelling and art, about ecstasy and myth, about cities and history and yearning … This is a sensual book, and the language is specific in detail to match that. But as it is also a weird entertainment, so accordingly the language is also rich and evocative. It’s a book that’s full of allusiveness, which works to create a dreamlike sense in which everything has a latent extra meaning … The book is about inspiration and the seeking of inspiration; about desire for sex, for art, for transformation … It is weird and it is entertaining … It is a success.” —Black Gate
- “A carnal carnival ride … visceral, intense, and tinged with melancholy … erotically charged.” —New Books Network
- “Great fun, full of joy and mischief … explodes with an intensity of eroticism … a sensual, visceral secret history … masterful and subtle.” —jonathancrowe.net
- “Brilliant stuff. Lovely, sensuous, funny, and deeply weird … Full of gorgeous imagery, lush dialogue, and deeply sexual scenarios. It is a dazzling read.” —Corey Redekop, author of Shelf Monkey
- “An alternate reality free from inhibition.” —CultMTL
- “This genuinely ‘weird entertainment’ drew me in and kept me hooked, page after page, chapter after chapter.
—Michael Libling - “A phantasmagorical odyssey … The subtitle ‘A Weird Entertainment’ is an understatement.” —Ottawa Review of Books
- “Quite beautifully written … it had a very dreamy quality.” —Silvia Kay Books
- “Insanely brilliant … wildly entertaining.” —Barnes & Noble Book Club
- “Filled with blunt, carnal imagery and a moist, pulsing energy … with unique characters.” —Tangent Online
- “A complex hallucinatory interweaving of influences.” —RoverArts
- “Bizarre, fascinating, hilarious.” —The Portal / The World SF Blog
- “Raw emotions … intimate.” —Nicky Drayden, author of The Prey of Gods
- “Sublime against a backdrop of fashionable European decadence.” —Pointless Philosophical Asides
- “Sophisticated cosmic horror … so unique and enjoyable.” —Dead End Follies
- “Full of quiet menace and unsettling sensuality.” —The Future Fire
- “Sensual and ribald.” —True Review