“Weaves love, desire, revenge, loyalty, and sacrifice into a blockbuster narrative. Hirshberg’s adept characterization engages the reader’s sympathies for Natalie and Sophie as they fight the pangs of vampiric hunger and yearn for their absent children....The clash of human and vampire worlds in the tumultuous final showdown presents a satisfying, startling conclusion and infuses this work with both literary and genre merit.”——出版人週刊，星級書評
“Always one of his generation’s finest stylists, its most able students of character, [Hirshberg] has written one of the best books of the year.”——洛杉磯書評（The Los Angeles Review of Books）
“A signature exploration of the emotionally devastating horrors that can arise out of the most intimate interpersonal relationships.”——軌跡雜誌（Locus）
“Even if you've sworn to yourself never to read vampire fiction again, do yourself the favor of reading Motherless Child. Hirshberg has crafted a compelling, heartbreaking thriller full of character, grit, and sorrow. Bravo.”——Christopher Golden
'Like an alchemist loose in a meth lab, Hirshberg produces rocket-fuelled gold in his magnificent MOTHERLESS CHILD; a sui generis mash-up of literary sensibility and B-movie energy, a shotgun wedding of the melancholy and the menacing, the meditative and the monstrous.' ——Peter Atkins
“This is a deep novel, a novel that makes you think, but at the same time, it’s a fun novel…that makes you feel. For fans of Hirshberg, this is one more masterpiece to add to your collection; for everyone else, this is an introduction to a horror writer who is one of the best working today and possibly one of the best ever.”——Nameless
