RaveBooklist[Albert] employs familiar themes and techniques, but at a new level of mastery, producing a standalone novel so precise and enthralling that the only possible explanation is that Albert herself is a witch ... The story casts its spell at once, ensnaring readers with incantatory language and a wickedly slow burning plot ... Albert’s meticulous craftwork shines ... Albert is able to conjure a deeply resonant emotional reality, as well as a fully realized, wonderfully creepy reality-reality, and for a horror-tinged fantasy, that is especially engrossing. This is a novel that will be devoured as well as savored.
