The Sunday Times:

Children's Book of the Week "Especially enjoyable are Harris's aphorisms, her satire of joyless piety, and the comically irreverent vernacular spoken by a dissolute goblin and the trickster god, Loki."

The Times:

"...her dramatic story rollocks along for 536 pages, with magical transformations, nets of blue fire and a spunky heroine...Harris's Norse romp includes a foul Examiner, a wicked Huntress and a cluster of divinely bad-tempered gods who are about to go to Hel for a showdown. All great fun for 11+."

Saturday Telegraph:

"Harris has tweaked our world to provide the basis of hers, but given it a complex and attractive back story, mixing up all sorts of Norse myths with a well imagined scheme of her own."

SFX:

"Maddy is hugely likeable and her godly cohorts, Loki and Odin, are full of surprises. Her world is beautifully drawn, too, filled with peasants who belive that dreams are evil, bickering gods and fantastical creatures."

Death Ray:

"The novel's strength lies in its themes - the clash of the old and the new, the power of names, new religions absorbing older traditions yet happily decrying the followers of the old ways in the same breath. Weighty themes for a children's book and excellently handled, neither being preachy nor interfereing with Maddy's story."