PanThe Washington PostRevolves around a refreshingly human conceit ... But Reality...is not fleshy or funny enough to sustain Kemp’s 240-odd pages. Hampered by aesthetic flourishes like smiley and sad faces punctuating paragraphs and an omniscient voice’s urges to \'Read on, man,\' Kemp’s prose is less provocative than cloying ... If Reality is the last hetero-optimist, then Kemp never joins her in her enthusiasm, maintaining an ironic distance and, crucially, some plausible deniability.
Alexandra Tanner
RaveThe Washington PostPaced like the internet: petty micro-dramas create a sense of movement, but mostly nothing happens ... Tanner, adept in the argot of the hyper-online inert...skewers the girls’ lassitude while remaining sensitive to the inevitable ennui of modern life.
