MixedLos Angeles Review of BooksThe story...is big ... It makes sense in a very technical way that this is how the bereaved Gabriel would communicate, but it still seems like a bleak proposition for a novel where plot functions almost as an excuse for flat writing ... In the end, Smith squares form and content in his own way—he is indeed a brat, petulantly refusing to write in the manner that might be expected of him.
Honor Levy
PositiveThe Guardian (UK)For Levy, narration is an interdimensional road map, winding through space and time, combining as signposts her two decades of encyclopedic meme knowledge interspersed with curveball references to antiquity ... Levy writes in her own referential language, a lightspeed style that must be post-post-post modern ... Always self-conscious.
