Publishers Weekly called it an "intriguing, clever novel", with the potential for crossover appeal as well as for satisfying fans of the series.

She said: "it is a clever novel.

Maguire has written a number of clever - and far more disciplined - adult novels that play out interesting twists on children's stories.

As clever as so many current first novels are, this deep, disturbing work makes them seem strangely banal.

But for all its likability, it is not a clever novel.

This is the setting for Shashi Tharoor's exuberant and clever second novel.

This clever novel by a champion storyteller concerns vanity, marriage, civil war, chaos theory and a woman who's better at loving chimps than humans.

Their exchange, distinguished by just enough empathy in the delineations of both befuddled characters, is by far the novel's most clever and resonant.

"The Houdini Girl" is a very clever, very tidy novel.

This extraordinary and, in the end, rather frighteningly clever novel isn't about cloning, or being a clone, at all.