The more I understood Eva’s twisted and highly self centered view of the predicament her husband was in, the more I disliked her. How could she make herself the victim, immediately believing that her husband was guilty of infidelity and murder without even hearing his side? This was a man she supposedly loved for over a decade, the loving father of her two children. Then when she had the opportunity she hopped into bed with Sammy her ex lover and never gave the fact that she was being unfaithful to her husband while he wasted away in jail a second… Read more »

I did not think Eva sounded unreliable as a narrator. To me she always seemed lost and manipulated, caught up in magic she did not fully understand. A lost soul picking and choosing pieces of things that fit her feelings and needs.

I appreciated the close, first-person point of view. As a privileged white man, I was given the opportunity to understand and empathize with a Latino woman who lost her mother at an early age and suffered from mental health and substance abuse. Her faulty thinking was the result of her the problems she experienced. Yes, I was disappointed when she slept with Sammy. I held Sammy not Eva responsible. Watching Eva see reality kept me reading River Woman River Demon. I stayed up until 12:30 AM finishing the book. I just could not put it down.