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Kirkus has given Soul Enchi­lada a starred review (woot!):

“Broke-down pizza-delivery hero­ine Eunice “Bug” Smoot’s snake of a grand­dad sold his soul to the devil for a 1958 Cadil­lac Biar­ritz. When he flies the coop, Satan—aka Scratch—and his crony Beals (short for Beelze­bub) chase Bug down for her soul faster than she can say “repo.” Before she knows it, Bug is trapped in a satanic smack­down to save her­self, her friends and her Cadil­lac. Con­vo­luted? Com­pletely. Bizarre? Absolutely. Hilar­i­ous and acces­si­ble? Totally! Gill scores big in this action-packed, power-punch of a debut. His dia­logue slam-dunks with sass and clever wit that eases the reader into the strange, inter­lock­ing chain of events that befall Bug in the first few chap­ters. His char­ac­ters are fully real­ized, intel­li­gent, believ­able and lov­able. The odd, Par­adise Lost–like plot prob­a­bly car­ries the least appeal of all the ele­ments, but the dia­logue and char­ac­ter­i­za­tions gen­tly push—or shove, actually—the reader’s sus­pen­sion of dis­be­lief over the edge. Seances! Hair­spray! Bas­ket­ball! Satan! All read­ers can do is buckle their seat­belts, close their eyes and take the plunge. (Fan­tasy. YA)”