Publishers Weekly wrote in a review of Across the Nightingale Floor, "For fans of Japanese samurai warrior fantasy, this novel is right in the ballpark, filled with swords, clan in-fighting, love affairs, invisibility and magical Ninja powers."[1]
Further reviews appeared in Kirkus Reviews,[2] The Guardian,[3] The Sydney Morning Herald,[4] Locus,[5] Strange Horizons,[6] The New York Review of Science Fiction,[7] Foundation,[8] and Analog.[9]
It won the 2004 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis.[10]
