MixedThe Chicago Review of BooksLockwood’s exquisite writing aims to show how the lines have blurred between online and real life, and how difficult it can be to discern between the two ... The failings of this novel are that Lockwood does not concede that it’s far more likely that the online-ness of our world, and the changes in language that will continue to occur because of the ever-growing purveyor of the Internet, will expand in orders of magnitude to be more influential than they are even now. Without acknowledging this, the notion of the Internet as the guiltiest of pleasures remains what it is, a tired trope about those who rely on the online world as a way to define themselves. This becomes increasingly apparent in the second section, when the narrator’s interrogation of her relationship with \'the portal\' comes to a point, to a halt.
