SOURCE: A review of Love in a Blue Time, in World Literature Today, Vol. 72, No. 2, Spring, 1998, pp. 371-2.

In the following review, King gives a favorable assessment of Love in a Blue Time.

Written over the past decade, the six short stories of Love in a Blue Time, all republished from magazines, are a pleasant surprise. Their conciseness compresses desire, indulgence, and subsequent frustrations into a few dreamlike yet highly colloquial pages. Everything appears to happen at once, in the present, with no time for reflection. An effective technique is the sudden, unannounced, unprepared shift into the mind of someone on drugs or having sex, or into the midst of a likely disaster. Before you have had time to say “Watch it” as the temptation comes into sight, the scene moves far ahead, without even the warning of time passing or an obvious jump-cut. The effect is druglike...