" In my opinion, OEB writes marvelous fiction. Her best stories are often the most difficult ones to accept. As others have said, Fledgling is one of those, provoking extreme distaste in some and whole-hearted admiration in others. I'm in between on this. I didn't care for the genre... but her her writing is so effortless that as often as I put the book down, I picked it up again. Yes this is a 'reimagining' of the vampire stories - so popular now. But it fits well with a theme she has explored often, what it means to be human. You have to think about vampires and mirrors and Ina as a reflection of human behaviors, good and bad. This is perhaps the Dawn series inside out with a bit of Kindred and the Parables thrown in for good measure. I also suspect this would have been a trilogy, or more, as the story introduced lots of characters, many of which deserved greater depth, and posed many questions and allowed for a stage that could span thousands of years. "
— Tbfrank, 2/17/2014