Press/ Reviews of Author's Books
From the San Francisco Gazette: Don’t blame us- she may live here but she was born in Texas! Taking Tokyo is a book I’d like to take back, to the store, that is. Promises of geisha and ninja warriors lose out to graphic descriptions of genitalia in crisis and a female villain who makes Nurse Ratched seem cuddly. Pitifully failing where Lost In Translation thrived, what the world needs now is not another Tokyo love story. Raw like sushi but goes down like blowfish.
From the San Antonio Spur: They should rate books the way they rate movies or video games, because this little tome is NC-17! Quick is how fast Stephanie Block takes your mind to the gutter with her first novel, or how fast we should all run to confession after reading it. I’ve prayed for Ms. Block and her pushy, obviously morally corrupt publicist who sent Quick to me in the first place, but I still fear for our souls. When Scarface teams up with 9 1/2 Weeks, we should understand it to be the first sign of the apocalypse.
From the Tulsa Tribune: Sci fi stands for science fizzle in Paladin, a heavy-handed tale from the future pushing believability to the outer reaches. It’s one thing to find dinosaur DNA trapped in amber, but quite another leap of faith to believe that nanobots will ever make us young again. Leave plastic surgery to those darling little clinics in Costa Rica, and Dr. Frankenstein to Mary Shelley, a much better writer than Ms. Block. Paladin reads like Wonder Woman meets Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. If you like watching cyborgs struggling through laboratory puberty and mutant adolescents battling their Mommie Dearests, for whom wire hangars are way too low-tech, then this one’s for you, sicko.
From Manhattan Monthly: Return your seats to their upright and locked positions, and put your head between your legs because Fortune’s Landing is a crash landing! Stephanie Block walked into a bar and said, hey, what a great place to set a book. Oooh, real original. Not. The only time you’ll wonder who dunnit in this San Francisco caper is when you realize that some editor out there actually gave this the okay. I’ve seen worse, but not many. Ms. Block should stick to travel writing- less writing and more traveling, and I mean as far away from the publishing world as possible.
*Thank you so much for all your concerned and heartfelt emails regarding these terrible reviews. However, I made them up.