"Kevin Killian writes like a bent angel who wants to inflict pleasure and delection. His confections dissolve into sensation on the tongue. Pleasure and safety are opposites, and these jumpy stories turn on the moment when our hero sees the broader perspective-of someone who wants to damage him"
–Robert Gluck

"The palpability of Kevin Killian's storytelling is perfect even if, as we bask in the paradoxical charisma of it, the good guys have gone and stolen the jewelry for no reason."
–Carla Harryman