Mirror Mirror, by Harriet Waugh

FLAWED MIRROR

When satire slackens or dulls, what is generally left is too much hyperbole for a first-rate novel and too few laughs for happy, vivid comedy. Readers who peer into Harriet Waugh’s Mirror Mirror will see just that sort of quirky and uneven middle ground. There is some horror here but not much hilarity, and the result is an interesting but essentially lusterless black comedy.