The New York Times Book Review
- Robin Romm
…one of the fundamental concerns of Cook's work [is] we're constantly fighting a battle against a force larger than we are, and we're probably going to lose. That may sound like a pessimistic summation of these lively, apocalypse-tinged tales, but Cook mines the moments that precede the losses—when the battles are truly raging—and it's in them that she finds great beauty and strangeness…Cook traffics in absurd situations…but she does so to dramatize her very realistic concerns. We're not part of a system of infinite resources. We're not immortal. No clear paths exist to our desired destination, if we even know what that is.
