"a sure fire bestseller"
Agent Patrick Walsh

"quite honestly, I found this misogynistic beyond belief"
Jo Fletcher ( editor, Gollancz)

"a relentless torment of a book - more like a verbal snuff movie"
Tom Weldon (editor at Heinemann)

"exceedingly gruesome"
Patrick Janson Smith (editor at Transworld)

"too voyeuristically gruesome and misogynistic...I'll pass"
Martin Fletcher (editor, Simon and Schuster)

"the horrifying scenes didn't particularly frighten me"
Luigi Bonomi (editor, Penguin/Signet)

"I'm hooked, you bastard, send me more. Please!"
Darren Jones (editor, Invasion magazine)

"in the words of my reader 'I had to stop and go outside"
(Agent, Robert Kirby)

"I was certainly gripped, in a horrified sort of way"
Malcolm Edwards (editor, Harpercollins)

"there were places where I couldn't read on"
Jane Morpeth (big cheese, Hodder Headline)