“An erudite and entertaining recreation of colonial America on the brink of the Revolution.”
—New York Times Book Review
 
 “Both frisky and learned . . . a treat.”
—Washington Post
 
“A lusty romance, a murder mystery, and a bit of Americana, all rolled into one big, fat historical romp. . . Lepore and Kamensky have recreated a fascinating world and brought history hotly alive.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
 
 “A droll, edifying novel…Not since John Barth published his classic riff on a genre forged by novelists such as Daniel Defoe and Samuel Richardson, The Sot-Weed Factor (1960), has anyone rendered colonial America in such exquisite satirical strokes.  Blindspot succeeds as raw entertainment; better, it soars as cunning academic revisionism…uproarious…As a piece of writing, Blindspot holds substantial delights…A big, absorbing novel so quirky and apposite that it belongs equally to past and present.”
—Chicago Tribune
 
“A rip-roaring yarn, a real romp . . . It’s fantastic—the romance novel of your dreams.”
—Newsday
 
 “A portrait of pre-Revolutionary Boston that is true to the spirit of the time while inventing a couple of romantic, witty, down-on-their-luck, larger-than-life characters struggling to stay afloat in tumultuous times.”
—The Wall Street Journal
 
“Thrilling, salty, swashbuckling . . . Equal parts screwball, gender-bending love story, suspenseful murder mystery, and cinematic morality tale about the soul-corrupting toll of slavery, this inspired page-turner will have readers pondering who will play the leads in the movie.”
—The Star-Ledger
 
 “Beautifully crafted . . . at once a tender love story, a murder mystery, and a brilliant sociological and political portrait of a turbulent time.”
—Library Journal (starred review)
 
 “A very smart book . . . [Blindspot] captures Colonial America’s wit and vulgarity, its sensibility, sensuality and snobbery.”
—San Diego Union-Tribune
 
“All prudence fled my house when this Book entered.  I cast aside my duties, I burned my candle low, in the reading of it.  …   O, dear Reader, what pleasures await you!”
—Yale Magazine