The She-Devil in the Mirror (Paperback)

from kidzdoc

Laura Rivera, the narrator of this novel, is a recently divorced and self-absorbed woman of privilege, whose best friend, Olga María, has just been murdered execution style in her lavish home in San Salvador, in front of her two daughters. A renegade policeman nicknamed RoboCop is quickly identif...

from kgib

I loved the voice in this book, and that the pace kept speeding up. After reading two unsatisfying satires recently, it was good to find a dark humoured book that worked for me. Maybe it helps that it was short?

from kidzdoc

Laura Rivera, the narrator of this novel, is a recently divorced and self-absorbed woman of privilege, whose best friend, Olga María, has just been murdered execution style in her lavish home in San Salvador, in front of her two daughters. A renegade policeman nicknamed RoboCop is quickly identif...

from stillatim

Very, very clever, and extremely well done, but a bit of a tour de force. When Moya writes as a persecuted, paranoid, intellectual loser (Senselessness) or as Bernhard (Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador), it's not hard to accept. When Moya writes as a vapid, right-wingish, society dame, it is hard ...