"Stevenson pointedly updates
the fantasy genre."
-- Rain Taxi
Review and Interview with Cynthia
Harrison at Garage
Band.
"It's not often you get
characters like those that appear in Jennifer Stevenson's Trash
Sex Magic. Even if you remove the oddities like the underground
huts and the tree fucking, Stevenson presents men and women who
feel entirely new to literature, and they're so good you have to
wonder why they've been missing.... It's
so refreshing to read a fantasy book that doesn't read like it bows
down to Tolkien, a book with a message that doesn't sound preachy.
Trash Sex Magic is Stevenson's first novel, and it will be
exciting to see what she comes up with next."
-- Bookslut
"Engaging ... her portrayal
of sexual magic and weird familial dysfunction in her ramshackle
yet lovingly described milieu ("I guess you know this whole
area's wetter than dog stool," Gelia warns at one point) is deeply
charming, and its best scenes lodge in the reader's memory."
-- Washington
Post
"I really enjoyed reading
Trash Sex Magic.... The prose ranges from lyrical beauty to
down home dialogue, the pacing sometimes whip-sharp, other times
flitting and stopping like a chattering magpie. The story could
be termed magical realism, though its bones are connected in a familiar
structure, creating an interesting tension between the expectations
of that structure and the open-ended possibilities of magical realism.
Bottom line is, good books are about character, and I loved the
trailer people and those who befriended them. And though I finished
reading this one over a week ago, and have read three since, I find
myself in quiet moments thinking about a certain small fox."
-- SF
Site
"Jennifer Stevenson's raunchy,
funny, and disturbing first novel, Trash Sex Magic, is full
of bewitching weirdness."
-- Chicago Reader
"Stevenson's first novel
is at once sexy, beautifully written and passing strange."
-- Publishers Weekly
"An unforgettable debut
by a promising author."
-- Booklist
"Wonderful.... Trash
Sex Magic can sweep you up and leave up dazzled, miles from
home."
-- Locus
"Jennifer Stevenson's sparkling
wit comes through in wordplay and metaphor, and her insight and
unwavering attention to detail creates a prose as marvelous as the
plot while celebrating Gaia and the passionate and transcendental
energy of Eros, and it does so with a profound honesty. Imagine
Anne Rice with a sense of humor, or a Christopher Moore novel re-written
by Anais Nin. If you are looking for a multi-layered treatise on
Goddess archetypes, if you're looking for a fantasy that isn't quite
dark, isn't quite urban, or if you're just looking for a funny,
well-written trashy novel, this book is definately for you. Surreal,
and full of delightful weirdness, this has quickly become my most-recommended
book of the year."
-- Green
Man Review
Fantasybookspot
Sex-kitten.net
Broad
Universe
Tigerheron.com
"Trash Sex Magic,
appropriately named, is a sophisticated trashy novel, intense and
raw."
-- Evanston
Round Table
