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Some lovely reviews for Interstitial:
Book Utopia
Reading Interstitial is like watching a tightly choreographed pilot for a new sci-fi series. Not one of those cheesy awful ones from the SciFi channel, but something Fox might take a chance with. And you know what? I’d totally watch that show if this was the script for it. This would have been more than enough to fascinate me and tune me in the following week.
She rates it 42/50
Elisa Rolle
This is a very good mix between sci-fic and romance. Both parts are deeply and satisfyingly dealt, and the characters are complex and interesting, and it says a lot on the author that she manages to do that in a book of less than 90 pages.
Lee Benoit
“Interstitial” is the whole package: cracking good writing, genuinely interesting characters, a finely balanced plot, and an original take on – and resolution to – a classic love triangle.
Blake Fraina
The thing I loved most about this story is its humour. So much of it is hysterically funny. Here are these three ultra-tough bullheaded individuals who spend as much time squabbling with each other over their messed up romantic lives as they do battling the rapidly growing army of marauding alien monsters that has overrun their ship. It’s hard to tell whether their bickering is designed to relieve the tension of the life-or-death situation they’re in or they’re just making the most of their predicament so as to avoid facing up to their feelings for one another.
If they made it into a film, the ad copy might read something like, “In Space No One Can Hear You Quarrel.”
Jaya
I had fun with this. It was a nice interlude into another world for a brief period in time. The tension between the characters as well done though I might’ve wished for a bit more build up to it. I liked the way the mainly featured sex episode wasn’t played out in full but bits and pieces of it were thrown in throughout the course of the story. That was a nice touch in building up the tension without going for the obvious sex obsession that seems to grip a great deal of gay fiction.
Val Kovalin at Obsidianbookshelf.com
Interstitial, at 82 pages, works as an unpretentious space adventure on the one hand, and a character-driven drama on the other. The two aspects of the story complement one another: the space action provides an exciting plot, and the relationship tensions give the piece depth and human interest.
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