I read a lot of young adult fiction (need to put more of it on my list, I'm realizing), so I'm accustomed to stuff written primarily for adolescent readers, but I just could not stand this collection.
I literally threw this book across the room when I was about 60% of the way through it. Back then, I might have sworn Francesca Lia Block had based her contemporary fairy tales on the everyday lives of my friends and me.īut I tried to read these books a couple of years ago, and found all the characters (and by extension, Block herself) irritating in their aggressively whimsical hipness. I know without a doubt that I would have loved the Weetzie Bat books if I'd read them in high school or college when I was an alterna-chick who scoured thrift stores for cool vintage clothes and went to underground clubs every night with gorgeous gay boys who loved me, but not the way I loved them.
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