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Summary: Magic, tears, and love, with a large twist of reality
Review: The start of the Weetzie Bat Series, Weetzie Bat is the opener for a wonderful tale. A personal suggestion: read Dangerous Angels so you can read all of the tales in order, but if you aren't sure you are going to like Ms. Block's writing, start with Weetzie Bat and move on to Dangerous Angels (the compilation of the 5 Weetzie Bat Books) if you do like it. This is a wonderful, magical book of love and tears that almost anyone can relate to in some way. Read it, you won't regret it!
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Summary: Amazing, beautiful, astonishing
Review: One of the most beautiful and original books I have ever read. Filled with haunting images and characters who seem both real and unreal. Told like a children's story, but it's so much more.
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Summary: A Great Start!
Review: Weetzie Bat is a great start to the weetzie bat books! It is very
bueatifully written. Francesca Lia Block is my new favorite author! If You read this you must read the many other wonderfully written books in the Weetzie Bat series! I have read three out of the 5 there are. I have put Dangerous Angels (The whole series collection) on my Christmas list! I highly recommend the book to all people!
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Summary: Eclectic Beauty
Review: Some aspects of the story were unneccesary and could be left out, but overall this is a uniquely affecting (and affected) short novel. Not so good for adults not in touch with their teenaged selves.
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Summary: hold on a second
Review: The negative review of this book I have just read is I think very unfair. First off, I got the impression that Weetzie was out of her teens before her baby was conceived; second, this wasn't totally accepted by the characters of the novel - it just worked out later; third, the book also makes it very clear that life isn't perfect or bound ever to be perfect; fourth, this isn't exactly children's literature, and fifth, the household portrayed is strange but very warm loving. Real family values shouldn't be offended.
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Summary: A Schizophrenic Carnival Ride - No, that's not a good thing.
Review: As required reading in a Children's Literature course, Weezie Bat proved to be anything but appropriate for children. Very adult themes taint what might have been an intriguing coming-of-age story. What you get instead is a schizophrenic carnival ride with loud prose and little substance. The utter rediculousness of several plot and character "developments" only magnify the discombobulated story telling. The whole account begs for a real and edgy feel but hinges on a genie in a bottle (literally) to keep the preposterous story moving. The characters are empty-headed students of hippies and Hollywood, owning absolutely no concept of action-vs-consequenses. (What Weetzie wants, Weetzie gets. That includes a baby that may have been conceived by any of three men. And, yes, for some strange reason, they all thought that was a good idea.) To describe them as "supremely superficial" would actually ascribe to them some depth. If you're attempting to instill any sort of family-values in your kids/teens, avoid this book like the plague. Or read it, if only out of morbid curiosity, to see how bad "children's" literature can get.
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Summary: Not Just For Young Adults
Review: But for girls of all ages. I would not hesitate to pick this book up at any age. I can't believe I even waited this long! This is a wonderful fairy tale like story of Weezie Bat and her life, her friends all with these wonderful names. Francesca Lia Block has a very unusual and creative voice that translates so well to the page. It is a very enjoyable read.
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Summary: "Page Turner"
Review: Weetzie Bat, by Francesca Block, is a very eventful story that can be fun to read. Some people might find it very odd, but in a fun way. Weetzie Bat is a book named Weetzie who meets her best friend dirk at a restaurant. While they were cleaning out his grandma’s attic, Weetzie found a genie bottle, which dirks grandmother gives to her as a gift before she dies. The genie offers her three wishes. To find out what the wishes are and there twisted outcome you have to read the book. This is the kind of book known as a "page turner." In every chapter there is a new interesting event. Every chapter has a problem and its own climax. In one chapter you might learn that Weetzie is now pregnant and in the next chapter that she had her baby and is thinking of another one. It amazes me that through the entire book she calls her boyfriend "My secret agent lover man" and never learns his real name. After every event she has a new dream that would make everything perfect. Another reason someone might want to read this book is it has so many different kinds of books in it. Lots of the time it is a love story like when Weetzie gets in fights with her boyfriend and then they make up. The book is also a fantasy, like when she meets the magic genie. Other times it is a dramatic read with brake ups, births, and witches. Even sometimes it is a mystery, like when Weetzie’s best friend Dirk is looking for his spouse that left him. Sometimes this book made me want to cry then a second later made want to laugh. Finally another thing I noticed is the way the author writes it seems like the reader is the weird one reading a normal book. Like when it says that Weetzie bat is going to name her baby witch baby as if all babies had that name, Though I found Weetzie Bat an ok book there are still some flaws. Lots of people would find it confusing. That is because it moves fast and never really explains what is going on. Also a lot of the things they do in the book are really gross like parts that have drugs sex and violence. For some people this is reason enough not to read it but I recomend you give it a try
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Summary: Hollywood Cottage
Review: The setting in the book is a small "Hollywood cottage" left to Weetzie Bat and her friend Dirk from his deceased Grandma Fifi. It has "fairy tale roof" which looks like it has "silly sand" spilled on it. In the yard there are wild roses and lemon trees. Inside the cottage are two bedrooms; one rose colored and the other aqua. Plaster Jesus statues and butterfly ash trays scattered through out the cottage and paintings of clowns lining the walls. A true dream house in my perspective.
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Summary: Weetzie
Review: Weetzie Bat By Francesca Lia Block Review by Carolyn Number of pages 113 Weetzie Bat is the story of a young girl's messed up life and how she learns to love and be loved. Weetzie's best friend, Dirk, and her go "duck" hunting together and and look for love and parties. Dirk's grandmother Fifi gives Weetzie a genie with three wishes. She asks for a duck for Dirk, My Secret Agent Lover Man for her, and a cute house for them all to live in. The wishes come true but not the way Weetzie expects. This all teaches Weetzie that love is a dangerous angel.
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