Icy Sparks was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club Selection in March 2001.[1]
Writing for The New York Times, Tara Bayton asserts that, "Rubio is a writer of uncommonly warm and tender vision, often comic, brimming with love and hope"[2] and that Icy Sparks "at the conclusion the plot loses much-needed momentum and Icy loses much of her dramatic interest as her religious fervor increases, Rubio tells an entertaining and absorbing story".[2]
