Dueling Reviews is a new feature here at RB where we read the same book and post multiple reviews of it at once. You are invited to add your thoughts in the comment, or hit me up at zombiemichele@gmail.com if you want to duel with me. Michele says: “Hateful girls, totally cliquish drama-trauma, and the […]
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Review: Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow
August 17, 2012Razorbill, 2009 ISBN: 9781595142511 Available: trade paperback and multi format ebook I didn’t expect to like Strange Angels. It’s another book about a super special girl, with super powers, who doesn’t want it, but has to bravely accept it to save the world. And there’ll be a boy, I thought. A hot one. I wasn’t […]
From Bad to Cursed by Katie Alender
August 9, 2012Hyperion, 2011 ISBN: 9781423134718 Available: hard back & multi format digital If anyone was likely to fall in with a cult of beauty-enhancing Donna Reeds it wouldn’t be Alexis. Even less if it was lead by an evil spirit, because Alexis just started recovering from the trauma of last year, when her sister was possessed […]
Review: The Amulet by Alison Pensy
July 16, 2012ISBN: 0982543808 Available in Mass Market Paperback or e-book Faedra Bennett was still a child when she lost her mother, and only her doting father and mysterious stray dog-turned Guardian got her through the grief. Now she is a young woman on the eve of adulthood, and she is going to need the support of […]
Review: Blood Drunk: Faded Blue by Angela Lovell
May 8, 2012Blood Drunk: Faded Blue by Angela Lovell*New Review Ticking Boxes, 2011 ISBN-13: 978-1466308282 Available: New Blood Drunk: Faded Blue is the first in a new YA vampire series from writer Angela Lovell. It tells the story of ‘Blue’ Knightly, a young man from the South who has to travel to New York to identify the […]
Review: Dust Girl by Sarah Zettel
April 4, 2012Random House Children’s, 2012 ISBN: 0375869387 Available: hardcover & multiformat ebook Callie lives with her mom in a grand old hotel in the middle of the Dust Bowl and has spent the last years watching it, and their town, slowly blow away with the wind. If this life wasn’t difficult enough Callie has a dark […]
Missing Angel Juan by Francesca Lia Block
March 16, 2012*Apologies as I accidentally set this and the review for Baby Be-Bop to save as draft instead of scheduling it to be posted this week.* Missing Angel Juan is the best Weetzie book, in my opinion. First it’s the only one in first person. Second it’s another story from Witch Baby, who is my favorite […]
Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys by Francesca Lia Block
March 12, 2012Book one (Weetzie Bat) was a modern fairy tale, book two (Witch Baby) was more akin to the Grimm tales. This tale (book three) still has that surreal fantasy-feel, but it heads straight for the Aesop’s fables section. Magic just seems to find Cherokee Bat. Maybe it’s because of how hard her mother Weetzie worked […]
Witch Baby by Francesca Lia Block
March 9, 2012Witch Baby is likely my favorite of Block’s books. (I say likely because I haven’t read them all…yet.) Less hipster/fairy tale than Weetzie Bat, it centers on the black sheep of the family, Lily aka Witch Baby. A dark-fae child born at a dark time Witch Baby is obsessed with the tragedies of life. In […]
Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block
February 29, 2012I remember when my Theater Arts teacher recommended Weetzie Bat (side note, he also recommended Poppy Z. Brite to me, both of whom significantly shaped my fiction and writing tastes). I remember thinking what a weird title and giggling. But then he let me borrow it. What a weird tale. Weetzie Bat is a teen/young […]