RaveVanity Fair\"Confinement of many kinds, then, and as the characters rattle their cages, Ridgway’s impish asides...draw the reader into the role of voyeur, a simultaneously discomfiting and alluring proposition ... Though some rather haphazard psycho-emotional theories may lurk beneath it, the world of A Shock is a meticulously crafted diorama, built on a scale that’s at once claustrophobic and expansive, running through cycles that are by turns bleak, hilarious, chilling and hopeful, and culminating in an ingenious finale that sees it consume its own tale.\
