I Was Told There'd Be Cake

American author Jonathan Lethem called Crosley "another mordant and mercurial wit from the realm of Sedaris and Vowell." David Sedaris called her writing "sure-footed, observant and relentlessly funny."

Kirkus Reviews called the book "witty and entertaining".^[2]

The Seattle Times said "this book about nothing is riveting to the very end".^[3]

The New York Observer described it as "a funny book, and also a wistful book and a touching book".^[4]

A San Francisco Chronicle reviewer noted that while the book featured "sharp, self-effacing humor", the book's style reveals the author as "too clever for her own good" and "not... very, well, nice", though that by the book's end, "we forgive her deceptions".^[5]