Brooke Stevens

"--a dark, disturbing, fascinating fairy tale."


"...a page turner that provides outlandish insights into male and female sexual pathology while luring one into a fantastic universe."


"...Stevens darkly enchanting novel will keep readers in fearful suspense until its very end... both hard-bitten realism and the magnificent wonder of a fairy tale."


"Brooke Stevens is one of those authors who knows all about your nightmares. He taps effortlessly into the murky corners of your brain where you keep the things that spook you."


"This dark, disturbing thriller about a traumatized girl found tattooed all over with fish scales is a guaranteed page-turner."


"...exciting, involving and quite unmistakably original."


"...an unusual and imaginative novel... It's a strange and disturbing book, vividly descriptive and occasionally touching."


"In direct prose, both unflinching and lyrical, Stevens explores many of the themes that made his first book so compelling: the ideas of human cruelty, salvation, and insanity's grip on the collective unconscious are set against a circus backdrop-and the result is a twisted coming-of-age story filled with the surreal horror of David Lynch."


"...another violent, atmospheric, and suspenseful tale from Stevens. This time, though, Stevens has eschewed the surrealism that figured so prominently before to create a more cohesive, tightly drawn story... [An] intelligent, poignant, and vividly imagined page-turner."


"Nightmarishly surreal and tenderly human at the same time."