This story is less boffo than the first three Slut adventures mostly because Amanda needs to travel such a long way from numbness to love. I found myself siding with Cricket a lot, prodding Amanda emotionally in the middle of the night, tickling her sense of humor, luring her into the woods, leading by following, crashing around in her life like upbeat ball-lightning, tempting her to live a little.
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What do Miley, Sinnead, Amanda, and Bernard of Chartres have in common? “We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants…”
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