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Margot Livesy
Positive The Philadelphia Inquirer Mercury is fast-paced, with the feel of life as lived. The secondary characters are well-drawn, including the couple's two children, caught up in the family drama ... Viv's voice helps us understand the limits of what Donald sees and understands about her, just as it explains how she has been blinded by Mercury's light. Livesey never seems as completely invested in her, however, and it's a relief when the story returns to the perspective of our myopic eye doctor, who can see what has happened to his family only after it's too late.
Bob Mehr
Rave Philadelphia Inquirer ...the standout music book of the young year...Mehr's book puts a capstone on a Replacements story that has come back to life this decade.
Peter Guralnick
Positive The Philadelphia Inquirer ...the historian produces a book that can stand with his best, and that is far more entertaining and lively than Dream Boogie, his 2005 Sam Cooke bio. [But] Guralnick can get carried away, as when he compares Phillips to Mark Twain and William Faulkner...
Elvis Costello
Positive The Philadelphia Inquirer The Costello book is capacious, clever, and full of heart and soul.