Sydney Morning Herald (reviewing the U.K. version of SLICK):

Price is a natural at leading the reader through a dizzying story that tacks and turns when you least expect it. He's constructed his narrative with the dramatic, action-driven understanding of a mighty playwright or scriptwriter, making it the kind of book that could just as easily have been a film.

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Stuff, New Zealand (reviewing the U.K. version of SLICK):

Slick is a razor-sharp satire. Price has been compared to Will Self and Kurt Vonnegut. Certainly, like Self, he can move from bleak, heavily satirical humour to out-and-out vengeful farce. And like Vonnegut, he is a trained, focused cynic.

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This is York (reviewing the U.K. version of SLICK):

Brilliantly written, fast paced, and utterly devastating in the way it deconstructs a lazy media to reveal the hidden marketing messages that underlie much of what passes for news, Slick is a sparkling debut novel. Best of all, Price pulls off the difficult task of making you actually like his anti-hero.

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Star News:

Slick reads like a hip, hard-wired, Net-savvy version of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, doing for the public relations industry what the earlier book did for meat-packing...an impressive debut for a satirical moralist who can stand comparison to Christopher Buckley or the young Evelyn Waugh.

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The Seattle Times Book Review:

[T]he novel itself is one wild ride...At 464 pages, "Slick" whips and swerves along like a book much shorter. Price, who runs a nicely biting Web site called AbusedbytheNews.com, is clearly obsessed with the way our heads are spun into a tizzy by the media, and without ever tipping over into lecture mode, he tosses in lots of tidbits about the tricks of the trade and the history of news hoaxes[.]

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The Roanoke Times:

This expose-in-the-form-of-a-novel involves a storyline about a media hoax of such mind-boggling complexity that I get whiplash even thinking about how to describe it. So never mind. Suffice it to say it is a riveting tale, chock-full of colorful characters, each of whom might well become the subject of Price's second novel..."Slick," as well as being a darn good yarn, is enlightening--and its readers will find it more difficult in the future to watch the media spin with an unjaundiced eye.

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MetroWest Daily News:

"Slick" comes at an opportune time, with media saturation at an all time high and virtually no difference between "Inside Edition" and "Meet the Press." ...But behind the moralizing tale about manipulating the news and willfully being manipulated, Price manages to sneak in a surprisingly touching love story involving our anti-hero and a character without hearing (who conveniently enough, is out of touch with what is being broadcast). Much credit is owed to Price for making such an unlikable character likable.

Reminiscent of some of this generation's great satirical writers, like Max Barry, Price deftly straddles that line between absurdity and truth. With "Slick," he delivers a razor sharp indictment on the state of the media that puts as much blame on us for watching the trash as it does the newsmakers who package the product. It's admittedly refreshing to find a novelist willing to offend for the sake of entertaining.

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Providence Journal:

Slick is written in Scott's sometimes hyperkinetic, always wry voice, [A] big book filled with discomforting observations on our media- and celebrity-obsessed society, and depicts behind-the-scenes skullduggery that you hope isn't realistic but fear probably is.

It'll make you think at least twice about product placement, truth in advertising, and how the news is reported. And it gives the reader much to think about during an election year.

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Time Out New York:

Price's debut just might do for unctuous PR flacks what Paradise Lost did for the Prince of Darkness himself--put a tragic, even heroic visage on the devil you only think you know...[SLICK] is as polished and precise as anything by novelists Will Self or Mark Leyner. Price's richly perverse prose makes a plea for compassion for his captivating demon and the media slime pit that spawned him

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MediaWeek (reviewing the U.K. version of SLICK):

Peppered with clever, eyeopening insights into the murky world of music and media, it is contrasted by the quirky and delicate interpersonal relations between the main characters.

Slick is a sharp and stylish read, outrageous in its ability to simultaneously shock and educate. It reveals the strings that manipulate the news without being self-righteous.

This book is a page-turner for anyone inside or outside the media.

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Booklist:

Media critic Daniel Price wades hip-deep in hype for this heady debut packed with scandal, crackle, and pop...Price keeps the 350-plus pages turning with snappy wordplay and vivid, surprisingly complex characters. A dark meditation on the art of manipulation, this is a must-read for anyone riveted--or repulsed--by the news.

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PR Week:

If you'd like to spend time with a PR guy who concocts a spin cycle that twirls faster than James Carville on "Crossfire," get this novel for some interesting reading and even a few professional tips....Price can turn a phrase. He engages you with specifically drawn characters, taking you on a PR journey off the beaten path of anyone who does typical product PR.

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Kirkus:

Wonderful characters elbow each other for room on a crowded stage. It's a bit like a sunnier Bruce Wagner, but newcomer Price is his own man.

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Publisher's Weekly:

If a book could rise up the charts on voice alone, Price’s debut novel about an L.A. publicist’s unscrupulous machinations would be a clear Billboard hit.

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