Random 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 […]
Category: fantasy
Baby Be-Bop by Francesca Lia Block
March 19, 2012Baby Be-Bop is the last novelette in the Weetzie series included in the Dangerous Angels collection. Sadly, it’s also the weakest. Baby Be-Bop tells Dirk’s story. Cherokee’s maybe-dad and Weetzie best friend he’s the reason these books are often challenged or banned in school libraries, because he’s gay. On one hand I can see Baby […]
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 […]