[9] Larry McCaffery described the linking as working in "often surprising ways that establish hidden connections that often seem to be operating on the basis of emotional, associational logic".

[14] These Waves of Girls "effectively integrates visual and audio material into a nonlinear hypertext where the reader actively determines the process of the reading experience".

Anja Rau has criticised this in her "beta-test" of the work, where she argues that the use of frames, Flash and the embedding of sound is done in a way that "does not meet the technological standards of current internet or CD-ROM productions.

[9] Larry McCaffery's description of the work in his role as judge of the fiction contest supports Koskimaa's interpretation that the unpolished web design is a meaningful narrative element.

He writes, "Fisher's narrative exemplifies the way that early Web-based hypertext could tell a series of interrelated stories using a menu system that allows the reader to enter (and reenter) sections in any order.

[19] The judge, Larry McCaffery, wrote: "I found myself hooked on Waves from the moment I first logged on and watched Caitlin's gorgeous graphic interface assemble itself out of images of moving clouds drifting across the screen, mingling with the sounds of girls laughing.

[16] The work is frequently taught in undergraduate literature courses and is referenced in the scholarship as a highly influential example of early multimodal web-based hypertext fiction.