RaveTimes Literary Supplement (UK)Very funny ... The novel has a five-act structure and, as in a tragedy, the mood falls as quickly as it once rose. In the end theatre is not enough to win over the people of Syracuse to their invaders. The differences between them are blown open in an outburst of violence that feels inescapable in the wake of war. If staging the play was delightfully flighty and ambitious, what follows is grave and urgent.
