“Agnes’s voice is precise, distinctive, and very beautiful and [… her] secure love for her family and her belief in the life-shaping power of stories bind this bittersweet book together. ~ Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books (BCCB)
“Caught between glamour and her own desire to shine, Agnes must pick her way through a tangle of trickery, family secrets, and fairy bargains to emerge both free and heroic. […] Through it all, Coats’s story maintains its strong central theme: Agnes’s determination to become the hero of a story—one that turns out to feature two girls helping each other.” ~ The Horn Book Review
“Coats skillfully weaves in facts about the Fair Folk, Agnes’s parents, and the coming of the Romans to Britain in this tale that hearkens back to a medieval story first recorded by monks.” – School Library Journal