Frey, Yvonne. Review. School Library Journal (October 1985): 184. Recommends the novel and also offers an important analysis of its imagery and dichotomies.

Marecki, Joan, and Charles L. Wentworth. "Patricia A(nne) McKillip." In Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series. Vol. 18. Edited by L. Metzger and D. Straub. Detroit: Gale, 1986: 316-320. The entry includes an interview with McKillip in which she discusses her writing career and interests.

Review. English Journal (September 1986): 82. Recommends the novel, and notes the theme of love versus independence in the story.

Review [Moon-Flash]. School Library Journal (December 1984): 92. Recommends Moon-Flash but criticizes the presentation of the Moon-flash as a manipulation of "paternalistic anthropologists."

Spivack, Charlotte. "Patricia McKillip."

In Merlin's Daughters: Contemporary Women Writers of Fantasy. New York: Greenwood, 1987. Offers an insightful examination of McKillip's fantasy novels, particularly The Forgotten Beasts of Eld and the Riddle of the Stars trilogy.