Robert Westall believes that he owes it to his readers (who will probably be twelve or over in the main) to be frank about adult frailty, allowing that children have more charity and fewer illusions than the average junior domestic novel recognises. His book is trenchant and candid and has something of the spontaneous, sardonic humour that is one of the more agreeable traits of the intelligent 'teens. The Wind Eye is not a swipe at orthodoxy nor at the older generation but an adept and adventurous attempt at a very individual kind of realism. (p. 3018)

Margery Fisher, "Magic Domesticated," in her Growing Point, Vol. 15, No. 6, December, 1976, pp. 3016-19.