“Once a year, a new novelist really blows me away. Last year it was Suzanne Collins with The Hunger Games. This year it's Gillian Philip's Firebrand...This deserves prizes... The best fantasy novel of 2010.” ----《The Times》
“Everything fantasy should be: vital, charismatic characters; intensely personal stories, big, arching themes of power and greed, love and loyalty... And all about the terrible things people do to one another for the sake of a cause or ambition, so there's plenty of crying to do... Superb... I'm blown away!” ----《The Bookbag》
“Vast in its magnitude... there are so many things about this book that make me crazy with love of it. Firstly, it is beautifully written... Secondly, the plot kept me on the edge of my seat the whole way through... Gillian Philip is a breath-taking writer who has taken a genre that is swimming with the mediocre and given it an awe-inspiring transformation and I worship her for it.” ----《The Bookette》