The Bergen Record" reviewer Barbara Jaeger called it an "achingly beautiful ballad. Camilla as achingly beautiful and available, rejecting Diane for Adam. "The Angels Rejoiced Last Night", and Boudleaux Bryant's achingly lovely "Sleepless Nights". He called the original rushes seen in the BBC documentary "achingly wonderful". "How Do I Make You" and the achingly pleading "Hurt So Bad". Newbery medal judges called the book "achingly funny" and one British reviewer called it "rib-splitting". "Brooks's novel is achingly self-reflexive" says reviewer Jane Housham of "The Guardian". David Johnson of DVD Verdict called it "an achingly abysmal exercise in vampire action-horror". Author David Greven praised Foster for a performance "achingly" suggesting "adolescent anomie". FCA came achingly close to advancing to 2.