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Summary: A riveting look into the lives of America's royalty...
Review: When I started reading this book, I wasn't completely ready for the look it would give me into Barbie and Griffin's worlds. Essentially, Barbie and Griffin are child models. At first, they both attend the same photographer, and both share the same horrible secret. Around the same time she met Griffin, Barbie met Mab. Mab is a feisty fairy who represents everything Barbie wishes she could be. Jumping forward to five years later, Barbie and Griffin truly meet. Griffin's roommate, the gorgeous actor Todd Range, is interested in Barbie, and she wants to love him. As Mab guides both griffin and Barbie through their complicated lives, the truths about them are revealed. Will the two be able to overcome the dreams forced on them by their washed-out parents, or will they continue to live in fear of what the world brings them? Read the book, and find out.
I recommend this book to anyone. It's wicked cool, and will definately change the way that people look at child and teenage stars. While reading this, you'll find yourself angry at Barbie's mother, who's trying to change her daughter's dreams and life. And you'll feel the way the Barbie and Griffin do, as they try and stop the man who changed and ruined their lives. As corny as it sounds, you'll laugh, and you'll cry.
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Summary: Dreamlike
Review: First of all, if you have read Francesca Lia Block's other books, don't expect that sort of writing here. Granted, it has the same descriptions of places you would kill to go to, but that's about where the similarities end. This book is more of a gritty Y/A novel than a fantasy, ie Weetzie Bat. It's the story of Barbie, a young girl haunted by her burn-out was-model mother, who wants Barbie to be to be a model so badly, she will go to any lengths to ensure it. So along comes Mab, a pinkie-size fairy with fuschia hair, who is Barbie's best friend, guidance counselor and, on occasion, psychiatrist! She is the best part of a fantastic book. Yes, I liked this book. I loved this book. I will read this book until the end of time!
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Summary: I thought what?
Review: When I was told about this book and that it would help me, a past victim of Child Molestation...I thought what? Especially when I picked the book up and saw the cover. How can this help me in any way? But I decided to go ahead and purchase and read....I found that even though this was a fictious book, my life and my feelings related to the past pains suffered. The fantasy of the book helped me to understand my reality.
What a remarkable book this is.
I also want to mention Nightmares Echo as being another book I was told to get, also helps with healing. To say i am amazed at this book is an understatement. thank you to the author
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Summary: Review
Review: "I was a teenage fairy" is a fantastic book for people who love to read fantasy novels. This book is like a fairy tale, however it was written for teenagers. With Francesca Lia Block's unique writing, her words turn into images. Barbie Marks, the main character in this book, is a lovable teenager who has a mother who was a former model, and wants Barbie to follow her footsteps. Her father, Dr. Markowitz, is a psychiatrist. With all the troubles going on in her life, a mom who pressures her to becoming a model, and a father who rarely speaks with her, Barbie manages through her traumas because of Mab. Mab, a fantastic pinkie-sized fairy sticks by Barbie's side, and helps her become a more outgoing person. As the years go by, Barbie has successfully become fashion model, with Mab still around. Whether Mab was real or not, Barbie always relied on her. As the readers read on, Griffin comes into the picture, and Mab is able to help both Barbie and Griffin with their pain hidden inside of them. Mab is the healer of both Barbie and Griffin, and is able to reach into their soul and heal all the traumatic experiences they've been through. I would definitely recommend this book to whoever loves to read a good fantasy novel, and enjoys Francesca Lia Block's imaginative ideas. With her one-of-a-kind writing, this is a great book for people who are just looking for a book they can read outside of school. It truly is a page-turner, and you won't be able to stop reading it. The greatest thing about this book is that the writer leaves the readers with one question, does Mab really exist, or is she just imaginary?
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Summary: I loved this book from beginning to end!!!!
Review: I WAS A TEENAGE FAIRY was the first book i read by Francesca Lia Block, and i could not put it down. Though i thought the title a bit obscure, in my opinion it would have been beter called I WAS A TEENAGER WHO KNEW A FAIRY. But besides this minor detail i loved it. A tragic tale of dark secrets, eternal love, exotic sex, and a dash of fantasy. Barbie is a young 11-year-old living in San Fernando Valley with her mother and father. At first it confused me with what the author was saying in the beginning, as if wondering about her story in her mind before telling it. Barbie's father leaves after Mrs. Marks brings Barbie home from a makeover looking like a prostitute. But previous to his sudden absence Mab had arrived from the stars after a fight. Throughout the book i was confused between whether Mab was a phycological thing or real, but later on in the story i thought her most certainly real. Even though only Barbie and Griffen were the only in the group able to see her, and they were the only two raped as children. The only reason i bought this book was because of the word FAIRY in the title, and myself being the fantasy addicted reader i am, picked it up. Even though it was a surprise when i started reading it, i would still recomemd this to any reader, whether you love drama, fantasy, mystery, literature, thriller, horror, science ficton or any other type of style, you should read this book.
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Summary: fairy of a teenage girl
Review: I Wasa a Teenage Fairy by Fransesca Dia Block was a very magical, invigorating, bizarre, and startling story. I loved this story. It had a realistic feel with a fairy tale twist
This story is about a girl, Barbie, who is forced by her mother to model. Her mom didn't make it as a model and thought she could fix her mistakes through her daughter. When she was about 8 she met a fairy named Mab. Mab was about 4 in. tall with a 8 foot tall sex drive, she had the attitude of a girl with permanent p.m.s.
Something happened at one of her modling shoots that would change her forever. Barbie wanted to tell her mom but couldn't, Even if she wanted to her mom wouldn't listen. If it wasn't for Mab all of Barbies feelings would be locked up inside.
16 year old Barbie, more beautiful than ever still being forced to model. Barbie meets a some friends and enimies that will change her life always.
This was a great book and I recomend it to you who have just read my review.
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Summary: Argh! Read this!
Review: I love faeries. they are beautiful amazing creatures that allow people to escape reality. So, as you could expect i was instantly attracted to this book. I regret that. I had my mother buy it for me, and when i got home i read it in about an hour. the beginning is amazing. truly amazing. but the end is weak and dumb. i expected more. the boy barbie hooks up with is extremely vulgar and wrong. this book is not about a faerie or a girl. its simply sexuality. i am 12, and know a lot for a child my age but even for me... this book lakced a good ending. poor. dont buy it.
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Summary: Will Have You Looking In Trees for Faeries
Review: "Maybe Mab was real. Maybe there really are girls the size of pinkies with hair the color of the darkest red oleander blossoms and skin like the greenish-white underbellies of calla lililies...maybe not."
I have always been mesmorised by things that ask the question, what if? In I Was A Teenage Fairy. You dont have to believe in Mab, the little fairy girl who befriends Barbie, a child model. But you will wonder, and the book will leave you wondering.
Barbie never wanted to be a model, she always wanted to be the person behind the camera. The "Cyclops eye." But her mother, a fallen model insist and drags Barbie into a whole bunch of uncomftoble job situations. To coax with the fights with her mother and her want to be loved by her father, Barbie wishes for a Faerie friend, someone to talk to and whom would love her. Along comes Mab!
When Barbie is eleven she is sexually abused by her photogopher. This event turns her away from modeling forever. Now, six years later she smokes and parties and does drugs. Yet she still has Mab, her best friend who knows who Barbie truely is, someone who just wants to be heard.
When Todd Grange meets Barbie he falls instantly inlove and well Im blabbering to much arnt I? I might as well just retell the story. In short the story is about friendship, and finding your true self which is why I love it so much. Everyone has their own Mab, all you have to do is look and believe.
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Summary: Drink it up fast and deep
Review: I don't know how she does it but she does and her writing comes out liquid and dripping of Ambrosia so sweet that you drink deep and deeper until there isn't any left and then all you have left to do is sit back and sigh.
Her writing style is like "extract of novel" mixed with sugarary syrup. She takes the horrible things that give us nightmares and makes them fantastical.
When you read I Was A Teenage Fairy, you won't even know which parts of the story are real and which part the story teller is embelishing on. In truth the whole book could be pure fantasy, but there will be a little nagging voice in the back of your mind whispering "what if...?" the whole way through.
Worth a sip or two or three...
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Summary: Great Book- Couldn't put it down!
Review: Hey this is an awesome book that really puts things into perspective. It is about 2 young girls who are so different, yet so alike. I'd recommend this book to anyone old enough, some parts are a bit graphic, but in a poetic way. This is a great book, like many of Block's other novels.
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