Rice writes with a captivating elegance and a mordant wit. She can create fear in the dark but her most dangerous gift is that the shivers sent down the spine are most sensual
Literary Review
Rice knows what her readers want - scene after scene of magic and conjuring, with a liberal sprinkling of horror and eroticism
Times Literary Supplement
Rice's writing is wonderfully imaginative and as creepily splendid as a hot-house orchid
Sunday Times
Rice's witches are sensual glamorous beings, bisexual and hedonistic, whose power is a knife that cuts both ways
GQ
Sensuous... A steaming brew of vampires and witches
Los Angeles Tmes