Wake lingers as more than an intricate piece of blood-splattered clockwork; it is the work of an author who knows horror is more than gross anatomy. It's also the ghosts and ruins of our own hearts.—NZ Listener
What starts off as a horror story builds into a taut, psychological sci-fi thriller that is alive to the troubling questions of what happens to humans when civilisation as they know it disintegrates.—Sunday Times Culture
The story picks up the pace til it becomes a frenzied psycho thriller which Stephen King would be happy to put his name to.—Weekend Sport
Terrifying dystopia in which survivors of a masscre hide behind a 'No-Go' screen—Sunday Times
Sly and ingenious.
One for fans of Stephen King—Red magazine
Knox's writing is sensory and lush and her imaginative intensity rivals the best of Diana Wynne Jones's stories.—The Australian
Knox keeps the monster off stage and examines the psychological consequences of its depredations on the survivors, subverting the norms of the horror genre and thus making the ambiguous finale all the more startling. Wake reads like a collaboration between Dean Koontz and John Wyndham, rewritten by Margaret Atwood.—Guardian
Irresistible.—NZ Herald
Elizabeth Knox's gripping adult novels are literary but dynamic, sensuous and inventive. She has a striking ability to evoke a potent sense of time and place far removed from her writing base in New Zealand.—Independent
Elizabeth Knox has the most original and lateral literary mind in New Zealand . . . I steamed through the book; by the end my hair stood of end. I shouted , 'Holy shit!' several times.—Metro
Brilliant.
Although coming across like a hybrid of two recent Stephen King offerings, Cell and Under The Dome, the novel is a triumph all of its own. Knox writes with a rare psychological acuity about humans under pressure in an intolerable, incomprehensible predicament.—Financial Times
Wake is the creepiest book I've ever loved: gorgeous, horrifying and insanely inventive. Elizabeth Knox continues to monopolize my awe pedestal.
