RaveThe Times Literary Supplement (UK)... capacious ... It may seem odd, then, given the strength of Drum’s fears, along with the atmospheric backdrop of British Cold War history and the powerfully imagined Doom Town, to question whether The Blind Light is really a book about the shadow of the bomb. But Evers’s characters have always been prone to frightening visions, and this multigenerational story about families and friendship, set against real events spanning more than half a century, actually draws its strength from elsewhere: from the author’s ability, evident throughout his oeuvre, to portray a more everyday kind of terror ... His skill in The Blind Light, as in his earlier work, is to see the skull beneath the skin of tough, regular, often lonely lives: of people \'who get by\', as he once put it in an interview. And to write their inner lives with an intimacy and spartan tenderness that in the contemporary British novel feel rare.
Pete Buttigieg
PositiveThe Times Literary Supplement (UK)[Buttigieg] can write. And if at times he is merely elegantly formulaic, smoothing all experience into a sleekly \'wannabe President\' presentation of his story, at others he’s plain elegant ... Buttigieg sweats every drop of his experience running a small city, with impressive claims around his curtailment of gang crime and improvement of the roads and sewers.
