Merrick

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 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's witches are sensual glamorous beings, bisexual and hedonistic, whose power is a knife that cuts both ways

GQ

Rice's writing is wonderfully imaginative and as creepily splendid as a hot-house orchid

Sunday Times

Sensuous... A steaming brew of vampires and witches

Los Angeles Tmes