[4] In a review for The Seattle Times, Jordan Snowden praised the novel as "[...] a stunning modern feminist fable that shouldn’t be missed".

[5] In her review of the book for The Guardian, Lara Feigel referred it as "an important contribution to the engagement with motherhood that rightly dominates contemporary feminism".

[6] Writing for The Washington Post, Bethanne Patrick describes how "Rachel Yoder’s debut novel, 'Nightbitch,' may feel as if the author stuck her hand into your brain and rummaged around.

"[7] In her review for The New Yorker, Hillary Kelly wrote, "The two predominant strains of maternal commentary in the twenty-first century can be summarized as 'Mothers cannot possibly do all that is asked of them' and 'Mothers are capable of anything.'

Each affirms the other: mothers simultaneously cannot live up to both maxims, and they have little choice but to try...Yoder believes both, and neither, and her novel happily occupies a floating realm between them.