[5] The Washington Independent Review of Books' Patricia Schultheis called The Night Tiger "a galloping good read that’s blessedly free of political polemics and post-colonial self-righteousness.

"[6] In Locus magazine, it was called "an immersive ride into the past […] a slow burn of a novel that hints early and often at regional myths and legends.

There is much more at work here, including the tender sorrow of Ren’s childhood and the violence that has long threatened Ji Lin.

"[7] Writing in The Harvard Crimson, Kelsey Chen said that, in The Night Tiger, "The world of colonial Malaysia is a pulsing, dynamic land.

[…] filled with exponentially heightened colors, dreams, and emotions in a quivering, hallucinatory mystery where local and diasporic mythologies come to life.