PositiveThe New York Times Sunday Book ReviewMagic for Beginners, is a potent blend of horror and magic realism and postmodern absurdism, but it's also not any of those things exactly … Link's fiction is both more accessible than it sounds in summary and more inventive than I can do justice to in this review. This is not to mention that she's funny. Or that there's air in her prose, dazzling turns of phrase on every page. The best of her stories combine the everyday with the bizarre to powerful effect … Even when I didn't know what to make of her stories, I couldn't put them out of my mind. That sort of resonance, that lingering, haunting effect, is the product of real magic, and Kelly Link is no doubt a sorceress to be reckoned with.
