In The New York Review of Books, Thomas Edwards wrote "even if Jones was a novelist who aimed for, and often enough achieved, something beyond mastery of technique and style, no assessment of Whistle can avoid saying that it is a very badly written book."
In The New York Review of Books, Thomas Edwards wrote that even if Jones was a novelist who aimed for, and often achieved, something beyond mastery of technique and style, no assessment of Whistle can avoid saying that it is a very badly written book.