[3] NPR wrote "Orange World is a thing of beauty, a stunning collection from one of the most brilliant literary minds of her generation.

"[2] The Los Angeles Review of Books said "Russell’s writing is at times overly lush, like the rich landscapes she describes.

But even at its most profligate, her ability to give weird and creepy shape to what might otherwise remain dark corners of the human psyche is refreshing.

Orange World and Other Stories is a collection hovering on the threshold between horror and comedy, between the phantasmagoric and the fleshly.

[1]Writing for The Guardian, Daisy Johnson praises how "always Russell's writing reaches past beauty to find the oddity, the heat beneath" and that Russell's Orange World "inhabits landscape entirely, bringing the Floridian humidity to every sentence".