"Pacifique is a necessary novel that uses poetic language and poignant writing to bring the too-often marginalized and stigmatized stories of mental illness into mainstream narratives. Taggart doesn’t shy away asking hard questions in her work, and even more importantly, doesn’t attempt to offer answers or clean endings to stories that linger with readers after they’ve turned the last page." – Megan Cole, ROOM Magazine
"Pacifique is a welcome read, a story that's compelling and touching, and a rejoinder to dated novels of mental illness. It keeps readers off balance but comes together nicely. It's a good debut and one wonders where Taggart will go from here." – Roz Milner, Broken Pencil
"Pacifique suggests that sometimes healing is accepting oneself and not trying to fit into the prescribed box, but to create the container that is most comfortable in which to reside." – Becca Lawlor, Ampersand Review
