In an article in The Independent called "Summer of Tainted Love: A Season of Strictly Adult Stories About the Shadow Side of Love and Sex," writer Boyd Tonkin connected my character Alpha Breville to Emily Brontë's Heathcliff, stating that, "The demon lover has stepped back over fiction's threshold." 

Tonkin goes on to write about several books that explore "potentially deadly desire," including Mud by Michèle Roberts, True Things About Me  by Deborah Kay Davies, and The Shape of Her  by Rowan Somerville. 

Maybe that's why Thief is getting more (and better) press in the U.K. than it is here in the U.S. Maybe they have a longer tradition of acknowledging the attraction of the demon lover. Here in the U.S. my characters get called "willfully stupid" and "dum-dum."

The same reviewer who used the word (words?) "dum-dum" about one of my characters also objected to my frequent use of the word cock. To boot, she wrote that she kept envisioning Tori Spelling playing Suzanne in "a bad Lifetime made-for-TV movie."

You can read that review here.

While I'm at it, let me throw in the review I got in Publishers Weekly that called my writing "abysmal" and concluded with this statement: "Suzanne is less a character than a phoned-in grotesque thrown together to serve the requirements of an ill-considered story of petty self-enlightenment." You can read the whole thing here on Amazon.com.