When his would-be lover, another man's wife, dies suddenly in his arms, the narrator Victor is faced with the dilemma of whether to contact help or her family, or to quit the scene without admitting his presence, and chooses the latter option.

[2] Michael Wood, writing in the London Review of Books, wrote "Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me, probably offers the deepest immersion in Marías's haunted universe.

Though the reviewer still praised the character's complexity and described the novel as "intriguing psychodrama of sex, guilt, and social satire".

[4] In The New York Times, Liam Callanan wrote that the novel's construction "is occasionally breathtaking but more often overtaxed by Marías's penchant for allusive detail.

Chasing associations across continents and centuries, [Marías] assembles layers of meaning that, at their best, are dazzling, but otherwise trail off into dizzy ponderousness.