“Fatalistic explorations of a city so sinister it makes H.P. Lovecraft look suburban … a high-quality mixing of eroticism, horror, and aestheticism…. Superb.”
—Chicago Sun-Times
“Tanith Lee is an elegant, ironic stylist… one of our very best authors. The prose is powerful, as well as stylish, and the characterizations are acute.
—Locus
“Gorgeous, intoxicating, appalling … Paradys brings to mind M. John Harrison’s Viroonium and Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandra.”
—Washington Post Book World
“Top-notch demonology and atmosphere … it is Lee’s talent for realizing an exquisite and appalling mingling of lust and horror, sexual pleasure and loathing, yearning and revulsion, that drives the book and its readers form cover to cover… Enthralling.”
—Kirkus (Starred Review)