Ecstasia

Rating:
Summary: so amazing
Review: this book is incredible,unbelievable. highly, highly recommended.

Rating:
Summary: Lyrical acid trip
Review: This is a very unusual book- even for Francesca Lia Block. It is fantasy novel with magic, but it is also a "civilization collapsed" kind of book. Some themes you'll find: environmentalism, antimaterialism, magic, acceptance of aging, anti-drugs, guilt over being gay etc.
Meaty, unless you're familiar with her other books, which consist of the exact same themes.

It is lyrical, sometimes too wordy (yes I know that most people love her for that very reason).

Lots of different plots, but ,sorry to say, not a very strong plot over all. Love, magic.

I would recomend getting it at the library before splurging. It's interesting and unusual, but not excellent. Primavera is better, so is I was a teenage faery.

Rating:
Summary: beautiful imagery and poetry
Review: this is one of francesca lia block's best books, and although it is very difficult to find, it is worth the effort. It is similar in writing style to her weetzie bat series, but is set in a mythical fantasy land of circuses and candy

Rating:
Summary: so amazing
Review: This was possibly the most difficult book I ever tried to find. But I doubt I could have picked one more worth the trouble! As a huge Francesca Lia Block fan for years now, I've always heard of these 2 impossible to find books, Ecstasia & Primavera. Finally I located them this past December.

Block has always crafted her words into beautiful modern day fairy tales of love and music but never has it created such a enchanting result as with this novel. I think part of the reason is because she completely creates a new world... one of carnivals, music, love, and youth. But there is also a scary flip side to this world. One that the 4 lead characters are struggling to accept.

If you are a Block fan and have yet to read these 2 novels you should really, look into them. I think they are essential reading of the authors.

Rating:
Summary: Worth the search!!!
Review: This was possibly the most difficult book I ever tried to find. But I doubt I could have picked one more worth the trouble! As a huge Francesca Lia Block fan for years now, I've always heard of these 2 impossible to find books, Ecstasia & Primavera. Finally I located them this past December.

Block has always crafted her words into beautiful modern day fairy tales of love and music but never has it created such a enchanting result as with this novel. I think part of the reason is because she completely creates a new world... one of carnivals, music, love, and youth. But there is also a scary flip side to this world. One that the 4 lead characters are struggling to accept.

If you are a Block fan and have yet to read these 2 novels you should really, look into them. I think they are essential reading of the authors.