Summary and Reviews of Yellow by Janni Visman

Media Reviews

The Washington Post - Susan Adams Visman displays a flair for precise, almost frugal, prose, making Yellow a tense, compact story that will hold readers in its unsettling grip until the final page.

The Daily Mail A taut, maze-like narrative that will entrap you within pages.

The Times Literary Supplement Simple but highly effective, Yellow sets the net curtains of one's mind a twitch.

Booklist - Joanne Wilkinson In this understated, beautifully written page-turner, Visman uses spare, ambiguous details to create an atmosphere of overwhelming menace and paranoia as Stella's small, orderly world starts to disintegrate.

Kirkus Reviews Captivating, like Ruth Rendell at her best, but with a mordant hipness that marks the welcome U.S. debut of British novelist Visman.

Library Journal - Elaine Bender Clues exist for the careful reader, but overall Vismans's (Sex Education) slim novel spanning five days just doesn't jell, straddling the line between psychological drama and crime fiction.

Publishers Weekly Visman does turn out some sharp prose while keeping readers guessing, but Stella is too grating to hold readers' sympathy, even when she deserves it.