...a novel which foregrounds adolescence without preconceived ideas or prejudices, and shuns rose-tinted spectacles.
...Its to-the-point, lively, breathless, youthful, unaffected language manages to be direct and abrasive while remaining entirely original and free of the excesses of an older generation.
...Devoid of didacticism and sentimentalism, this is one of the most convincing versions of adolescence we have read in recent years. A vibrant novel with narrational mettle.

Averoff invests in language as she attempts to explore and chart her hero’s most innermost being using the short, incisive sentences of the youthspeak of today. Transformed by the power of literature, this imbues the novel with a modernist hue.

...gets the adolescent’s thoughts and idiom down on paper as he would himself, were he equipped with the requisite expressive and stylistic tools.

...Introspection, the search for self-knowledge, psychological analysis and meditation take precedence over the representation of external reality. Even time is diffracted through the prism of her characters’ consciousness, distorted into something psychological, allusive and experiential.

...the language wins you over. Short, up-to-date and humorous, it fills you with envy for the community of 16 year-olds who dream like children but are scathing like adults.
...an adventure which an adult would read with interest, too. In fact, this novel which addresses the here and now in an extremely timely fashion is primarily aimed at adults.

....Tatiana Averoff writes about adolescence in the Internet age with a profound respect and tenderness for the road to adulthood. Her fresh and lively idiom has the reader suspecting that every similarity with real people and events is anything but entirely coincidental.