...This is Gretchen Peters' finest moment as a recording artist, and perhaps her finest as a song-lyric poet as well. Her rhymes and melodies are sometimes stretched here, pushing at the meaning of words themselves to communicate what is clearly beyond them. And it is here, in these grooves, that the strength and determination in her voice -- illustrated by musical accompaniment and production verging on brilliant -- carry these songs from the depths and the darkness of her private well into the open air to be kissed by the light. …Burnt Toast & Offerings is the most sophisticated and truthful recording about love since Nick Cave's The Boatman's Call. It's not the next step for this contemporary singer and songwriter, but a giant leap, an aesthetic milestone that sets the bar higher not only for her but for anyone wishing to write songs honestly about the inside of a life in the process of being lived, a life that holds love as its zenith... - Thom Jurek --AllMusic.comEmerging from the ashes of a 23-year marriage she chose to end, Gretchen Peters (aided by co-producer Doug Lancio) has fashioned a wondrous, wrenching personal reflection on love. Setting her personal reflections to music and arrangements that have, at times, a spare beauty and, at others, a soaring but demure grandeur, Peters makes sure that nothing's overdone… Deep and deeply beautiful, Burnt Toast & Offerings is a fully realized work of art.  -David McGee --Barnes & Noble.comWriting as a vulnerable every person as opposed to a wronged crazy ex-girlfriend, Peters grabs the brass ring again with a set that can rate right up there with classics like Joni Mitchell s Blue for feelings about disintegration and resurrection. --Midwest Record Review