PositiveNewton Review of BooksA major working-over of every sort of expectation ... As the Sero chapters become increasingly fantastical and sinister, there are clues to the real world embedded in them, closely mirroring the threat and foreboding that is increased with every move that Erma makes, blundering as she is into something much darker than the reader might reasonably have imagined on first encountering this cleverly devised narrator. At the same time, there’s something about Erma that will strike many readers as slightly off-kilter. There’s something about her family, the way she treats friends, her boyfriends and sexual encounters – just a hint of something, perhaps unreliable, perhaps unforgiving, it’s hard to define given everything is through Erma’s eyes ... plenty of action happening in and around the university where Erma Bridges works ... fast paced – it’s pretty well impossible to put down – and the underlying story is as shocking as it is sadly predictable in this day and age.
