"The Memory Theater is exquisite and astonishing. The prose has a sculpted precision, every sentence both tense as a watch spring and serene as a mountain. Tidbeck skips from horror to wonder to humor like a stone skimming water, and is equally nimble in managing characters; each one steps onto the page fully formed no matter how minor the role."
--Amal El-Mohtar, The New York Times

"Blending fairy-tale atmosphere with 'the real world, ' Karin Tidbeck's The Memory Theater is lovely, dark, and hopeful all at the same time."
--Ann Leckie, author of the Imperial Radch Trilogy and The Raven Tower

"At once arrestingly strange and hauntingly familiar, The Memory Theater is a brand new fairy tale you can almost remember hearing before."
--Lara Elena Donnelly, author of the Amberlough Dossier

"The Memory Theater is a wonder, sparkling with magic and menace. Karin Tidbeck has written a taut, engrossing fable about identity, time and home that wanders through worlds that lie hidden beyond the veil of our own."
--Shawn Vestal, author of Daredevils

"Karin Tidbeck is one of the finest writers of fantastic fiction in the world. The Memory Theater is as intricate and as gorgeous as a Swiss watch, only this watch comes from the realm of the Fae. Tidbeck's second novel is beguiling, terrifying, and hugely compassionate. A cause for celebration."
--Nathan Ballingrud, author of North American Lake Monsters and Wounds

"Inventive, surreal, at times violent, [The Memory Theater] has a timeless, durable quality . . . The Memory Theater maintains a kind of gentleness and fascination with the world--childlike and serious at once . . . a strange and ultimately quite delightful tale."
--Jake Casella Brookins, Chicago Review of Books

"Wonderful . . . [The Memory Theater], boasting no translator, is [Karin Tidbeck's] own coinage, and it shows a level of unassuming but beautiful prose which many a native speaker might envy . . . Taken all in all, this sophomore novel from Tidbeck is a remarkable accomplishment, full of eerie magic, human pathos, and mystical urgings. I suspect the Memory Theater troupe is applauding themselves for introducing this book to our reality."
--Paul Di Filippo, Locus

"[The Memory Theater] left me grateful for the experience of reading . . . Rich, multiversal, all-encompassing . . . A nesting doll of interconnected worlds and lives, a kaleidoscopic reflection of our reality, made magical and strange."
--Molly Templeton, Tor

"The Memory Theater is as inventive and eerie as Swedish author Karin Tidbeck's previous works, though more fantastical and fairytale-like."
--Buzzfeed, "21 Fantasy Books to Get Excited About This Winter"

"The Memory Theater is a truly immersive experience, and absolutely blew my mind."
--Tor, "The 30 Most Anticipated SFF Books of 2021"

"A dark, new fairy tale about the haves and the have-nots."
--K.W. Colyard, Bustle

"Sharp and glittering. . . . Tidbeck [creates] a world where love, cruelty, and wonder all exist side by side. Highly recommended for fans of Tanith Lee, Michael Moorcock, or Mervyn Peake."
--Booklist, starred review

"Expansive and wildly imaginative . . . Tidbeck straddles fantasy, coming-of-age drama, and horror with an exciting, sometimes wrenching tale of friendship and time travel . . . This fast-paced fantasy will please fans of quest stories who don't mind a bit of darkness."
--Publishers Weekly

"Strange and unique . . . A dark fairy tale that snakes through the multiverse."
--Kirkus