LITERARY REVIEW OF CANADA published a review of The Carnivore in the October 2010 issue. Reviewer Martin O'Malley writes, "Mark Sinnett could not have invented a more Canadian, more Ontario, more Toronto setting for his remarkable novel... The Carnivore is a joy to read for its descriptions of a long-ago Toronto... Sinnett gives us richly detailed descriptions of the streets, buildings and stores, the hullabaloo of the CNE, all of which capture the drowsy mood of the city n the 1950s."