Blog reviewers love Bad Marie. Here’s another roundup of raves:

“Sexually raw and unflinching, Bad Marie is a provocative, seductive work by a fiercely talented writer.”  – The Current Reader

“An utterly delightful gobble of a book.” — Fernham

“It’s nearly impossible not to get sucked into [the] story.” — Daemon’s Books

“Bad Marie is funny, poignant, a little naughty, a little dark, and completely unputdownable. An utterly compelling read.” — In Spring It Is the Dawn

“Highly recommended!!” – Jordan Hoffman

“[A] gem of a novel.” — My Novel Reviews

“Loved to hate this drunken kidnapping hedonistic ex-con bad girl.” — iEATbooks

“I LOVED it from the first line [...] to the last! I didn’t want it to end. Read it!” — Karyn Bosnak

“Dermansky has excelled in writing  a mesmerizing character study and unrelenting page turner all at the same time.” — Linus’s Blanket

Newsday, “the Long Island and New York City News Source,” reviewed Bad Marie in today’s print edition. Marion Winik writes:

A page-turning melodrama told with chilled cosmopolitan irony, the moral
puzzles at the heart of “Bad Marie” linger after the delicious meringue
of the book has been consumed. Cool trick, Ms. Dermansky.

Read the entire review.

Bad Marie is collecting rave reviews from book blogs around the web. Here’s what they have to say:

“This novel should come with a surgeon general’s warning it’s so addictive.”  –BookSexy

“An absolutely fascinating character.” –Devourer of Books

“I absolutely could not set this book down.” –Old Bookworm

“Whip-smart, sexy, funny. This novel is artisan chocolate dipped in top-drawer whiskey.” –Emily Gray Tedrowe

“An extremely enjoyable book with a fascinating lead character.” –toothy books

“Stunning.” –BookChickdi

“This book fucking rocks.” –Shishnit

“One fantastic summer read.” –Hybrid Mom

Gina Frangello, author of Slut Lullabies and fiction editor of The Nervous Breakdown, reviews Bad Marie:

It is hard to even begin to define what makes Bad Marie “different” from other books on the market right now, except to say that it is as different as the French films of the 1980s were from When Harry Met Sally or Rambo.  In fact, it might be fair to say that Bad Marie is the Betty Blue of novels: not just genuinely sexy, dark and subversive but also freaking weirdly hilarious, and if there is any logic in this world it will become both a bestseller and a cult classic.

Lisa Shea reviews BAD MARIE in the July, 2010 issue of Elle Magazine:  “Dermansky does proud the long, often sketchy, sometimes illustrious tradition of transgressive fiction with BAD MARIE . . . Her Marie is no cry-baby Anna Karenina fated to a star-crossed love for which she pays with her life.”

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Dermansky follows her bold debut, TWINS (2005), with a wickedly nihilistic and suspenseful tale of erotic mayhem. Impulsive, larcenous, and utterly self-absorbed, not to mention vampishly beautiful, Marie rather liked prison, where she could read her favorite book, a novel by a French author named Benoît Doniel, over and over. Her handsome young Mexican lover and inept accomplice hung himself in jail, and her mother won’t even pick her up, so upon her release, Marie heads for her old friend Ellen’s swanky New York apartment. Smug Ellen knows how dangerous Marie is, yet she desperately needs a nanny for her precocious toddler daughter, Caitlin. As for her husband, it’s none other than Benoît Doniel. Bewitching and commanding, Dermansky creates a template for either a comedy of sexual errors or an all-out tragedy, then keeps readers guessing until the very end. Set in New York, Paris, the Riviera, and Mexico, this is an edgy, speedy, stylish, unpredictable, funny, and heart-stopping tale of a damaged soul who finally finds love in the clear-eyed intelligence, trust, and joy of a child.— Donna Seaman