"Toronto novelist John McFetridge has studied at the knee of Elmore Leonard and taken away lessons that I wish more Canadian novelists would. Dirty Sweet is an amusingly sordid tale that features amusingly sordid people … you can’t read it for long without a smile coming across your lips. If more people wrote the kind of clean-as-a-whistle, no-fat prose McFetridge does, this reviewer would finish a lot more of their books."
— David Gilmour, National Post
"This is a fine first novel. McFetridge ... has a gift for dialogue and setting ... a great eye for detail, and Toronto has never looked seedier. McFetridge is an author to watch.”
— Margaret Cannon, Globe and Mail