...a rich meal in every sense of the word. -- John Berlyne, SFRevu
The Etched City has all the vitality of a first novel and few of the vices. -- Michael Moorcock, The Guardian
THE ETCHED CITY is definitely a must-read for lovers of literate dark fantasy. -- Paula Guran , DarkEcho Horror
Hopefully the various people who hand out best first novel prizes have heard of this Book, because they should be lauding it. -- Cheryl Morgan, Emerald City
...an ambitious and casually brilliant debut, erudite, lavishly written. -- James Sallis, Fantasy & Science Fiction
Perhaps we missed something but for now, this is what we've got: a good novel but nothing that awakened a compulsion or enlightenment such that we wanted to read it again -- Inchoatus