The reviews have been quite kind. Obviously with sort of varying degrees of success. Most reviews were excellent, and one of the things I was most interested in in terms of the book was I didn't want Jean to be simply a victim because victim stories in the end lack Interest, at least for me, I think for most readers as well. I wanted a sense of her being somewhat complacent in the events that happened to her. And how much is, of course, the question which I want readers to be left with.
Most reviewers seem to get that.
They talked about how she ignored clues to Stephen's background somewhat willfully, in cases because she was paying attention to other things. One of the reviewers I think it was Seattle, talked about that the warnings from her neighbor, Mrs. Olson. She is much more concerned about ending up like her than she is ending up in the clutches of someone like Stephen. And that whole question of how culpable we are to what happens to us is really for me the central one of the book. And reviewers did seem to get that.