Half a Klip horribly cliché hook; "riding to the club, candy coated on the dubs." That doesn't mean "Half A Klip" is flawless otherwise, other than on the original version of "100 Rounds" (from Domingo's "The Most Underrated"), and "With a Bullet" do you really get the G Rap of old; spitting breathless flames at a rapid pace". Quentin B. Huff of PopMatters gave "Half a Klip" a score of five out of ten and noted "[Kool G Rap's] rhymes are still gritty, grimy, and gory, and his flow is still intricately smooth, but the project as a whole travels lighter than you’ll
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing In a "New York Times" review, Joshua Cohen described the book as being "in all respects, a heresy — which is to say, Lord above, it’s a future classic." Reviewing the novel for "The Guardian", Anne Enright wrote that it "is hard to read for the best reasons: everything about it is intense and difficult and hard-won." The novel won several awards including the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize, the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. The Guardian Book Club featured the novel in 2016, and