This twisted and very funny New York anti-rom-com may ruin your love . . . [Crosley] is a caustic skewerer of internet millennial life on a par with Patricia Lockwood

The Times

A book about regret, about hoping you made the right choice, about the noxious power of our memories, but also about one of the worst things a woman can do in a big city: date men. Look, some of us can't help it, despite our best efforts

New York Times

A bona fide fun time. If you ghosted Ms Sloane Crosley's stunner of a rom-com (and gleeful evisceration of dating culture) back in the summer – all is forgiven. Slip on something gorgeous, pour wine, light candles, open cover and have a beautiful time

Mr Porter, Books of the Year 2022

Crosley's writing is as funny as ever, with a great line or clever observation on nearly every page . . . Her fascinating conceits – entertaining and compelling in their own right – are the engines of the narrative, but her insights into contemporary life are the fuel

LA Times

Crosley brings her prodigious gifts as a humorist to this crackling novel . . . At once acerbic and poignant, Cult Classic's tour through heartbreaks past yields bittersweet truths about finding love by swipe. It's as fine a treatise on modern romance as they come

Esquire

A witty and fantastical story of dating and experimental psychology in New York City . . . Thoroughly hilarious [and] sharply perceptive . . . Crosley has found the perfect fictional subject for her gimlet eye

Publishers Weekly, starred review