There is something both dark and tender in Ladykiller. Charlotte Gill is a wise purveyor of the heart's loyal yet capricious nature. A stylish and sassy debut.
Michael Winter
...an excellent collection...This is an intelligent, contemporary book...Every story in Ladykiller sings in its own way. Nothing should have been done better in Ladykiller. Charlotte Gill's voice is on every page, her sure eye for contemporary detail, her originality and unsentimental wit, her ability to deliver us to endings with a sense of having read tellingly about our own world. About ourselves, even. That is Charlotte Gill's authority. And that's also why, when finishing Ladykiller, I wished I had something else written by Gill to open immediately. I wanted back in.
Globe and Mail
In Charlotte Gill's shockingly unsentimental stories, her emotional pyromaniacs hurtle towards various degress of conflagration. CAUTION: Her prose is booby-trapped with combinations of words so lethally effective they may as well be dynamite.
Zsuzsi Gartner
...topics and descriptive tactics are well wed to Gill's characters' sensibilities and make for some cleverly arresting observation and imagery. Her sense of satire is no less honed.
Quill & Quire
Crackling with a truth both brutal and tender, Ladykiller astounds and impresses with each and every carefully chosen word.
The Book Brothel
... [Gill] writes with wicked black humour, keeping you wincing and laughing all in the same paragraph.
Herizons, Winnipeg
Gill brings a dynamic and different perspective to human interaction and in doing so, demonstrates a raw vision and energy that can not be ignored.
Canadian Literature Review
Like afterglow, the stories are imprinted in our minds long after they've come and gone...Ladykiller is as fresh as it is stark.
January Magazine
Fast-paced and dizzying, [Gill's stories] shake you up like illegal rides at an emotional fun fair...this is a writer who knows how to spin you around until your stomach flips yet leave you wanting more.
Georgia Straight
...Ladykiller lives up to the vigorous praise it has garnered. This is an impressive...start for a talented new voice on the Canadian fiction scene.
Weekend Post
...Gill brings us uncomfortably close to the truth of these characters' lives – that whether or not they accept the changes, life remains indifferent to their hopes.
Toronto Star
Ladykiller is a collection of seven powerful, finely honed stories.
Vancouver Sun
The tales are startling in their originality...Gill has a good eye for the flotsam of contemporary reality...and she uses her talent to advantage. The result is a stylish, over-the-top debut collection; fine fare for one's summer reading list.
London Free Press
Charlotte Gill's Ladykiller runs a blazing sprint through head and heart. Read it so we can get another book of these courageously honest stories.
Ottawa Citizen