But this isn’t your typical “likable whore with a heart of gold” scenario anymore than it’s a harsh portrayal of the streetwalker’s life. Rather, Clara is presented as a fully formed human being, someone with complex and often conflicting emotions and ideologies, a woman possessed of all the fine and terrible attributes which make for a compelling character. While it’s absolutely true that there’s little enough room in two pages to present a solid narrative, much less a funny one, as the reader learns more of Clara and her life through these brief encounters, a deeper and more meaningful portrait of the character comes to light. By turn we get glimpses of the different sides of this Betty Page look-alike, first as the beset woman whose skills and efforts aren’t always fully appreciated as work; now as the doting mother who will (literally!) use every trick in the book to buy her child everything he deserves; and then as the female warrior out to right an age-old wrong perpetrated by the opposite sex — even if it’s but for a moment, even if it’s only for the sardonic and knowing laugh it gives rise to.
— Bookslut | The Best of Jordi Bernet’s Clara
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