In 1997 our reviewer, Peter Lefcourt, called this an "entertaining novel."

Many lessons of tolerance could be taught in the classroom by using such an entertaining and historically accurate novel.

Last year our reviewer, Walter Walker, called this "an enormously entertaining novel."

He learns some hard lessons about bullying in an entertaining novel.

With his knowledge of Eastern life and manners, he wrote several entertaining novels.

These flaws are more than counterbalanced, however, by this entertaining novel's sheer vigor and charm.

What results is the most wickedly entertaining novel of Fuentes's career, now well into its fifth decade.

The action is furious in this thoroughly entertaining novel, but the reader must pay close attention to sort it all out.

It is "a very good and entertaining novel."

Sometimes the most entertaining novels, like the best magic tricks, are deceptively simple.