“Terry Griggs’s second novel is as exuberantly inventive, verbally juiced up and sexually outrageous as her first, The Lusty Man—and more pointedly iconoclastic…. The language, the verbal fireworks, the apparently limitless stream of image and metaphor—startling, heady, hilarious—do it all.”
—The Globe and Mail
“An odyssey saturated with wonderfully freakish imagery…. With astonishing talent and control, [Griggs] smashes apart Victorian society (and modern society by extension) and rebuilds it as a Swiftian fantasy, raucous as Huckleberry Finn and nearly as bizarre as Alice in Wonderland…. This is a rich mixture, intensely intoxicating and bestowing delicious feelings of hallucination…. Writing as visual art? Reading is done with the eyes, after all, and after reading Rogues’ Wedding one comes away with eyes overflowing.”
—Quill & Quire
“Manitoulin writer Terry Griggs returns with her third major effort, Rogues’ Wedding, and continues to astound with her quirky sense of craft, a delightful mixture of reality and farce, and sharply drawn characters…. Suffice to say, after reading the Griggs canon, I’ve come to this conclusion: she’s the writer I’d most want to sit with at a kitchen table on a sunny Sunday afternoon, brandy bottle at the ready. She’s a hoot…. Rogues’ Wedding is a rollicking romp and frivolously fantastical; it’s not heavy, but heavenly.”
—The Hamilton Spectator
“In Rogues’ Wedding [Griggs] hones her voice, creating an unforgettable historical picaresque that paints Victorian Ontario as anything but stodgy and dull. This book is a carnival, filled with freaks and wonders…. Griggs is an original, no doubt about that, but if pressed to say who her writing reminds me of, I’d say Peter Carey. It has the same rollicking love of language, syllables that roll and dance on the tongue, metaphors that pile up willy-willy until they make perfect, unpredictable sense. The narrative is preposterous, the characters fabulous, drawn sharper than life, coloured more brightly, yet after you put the book down, you see them everywhere.”
—Ottawa Citizen