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Summary: Angel Juan' Discovery
Review: Missing Angle Juan is about a young girl named Witch Baby who's boyfriend Angle Juan leaves to go to L.A. to get away from eveeything and to think by him self. Witch Baby took that the wrong way and went looking for him in L.A. when she got to L.A. she went to an appartment where here almost grandfather lived and stayed there during the night. Withch Baby carries around a camera and takes pictures of everyting from fire files to farries and even boys dressed up like girl with braided pigtails. she meets her almost grandfather as a ghost. She was not frightened of him.
He shows her a round L.A. and they see lots of clues to where Angle Juan is. They find an empty club house in a tree, a postcard on the street, a mannequin in a diner, and pictures that they found at the empty fair grounds in the photo booth. Angle Juan is in danger and only Witch Babies heart-magic can save him...
Missing Angle Juan is a very good book. It is full of adventures and filled with supprises around every corner. Although this book was good it was kind of hard to read. The writer definatally had the skill for writing but she made sentences a paragraph long so you kind of miss the point of the story.
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Summary: I LOVE THIS BOOK!
Review: Once again, francesca Lia Block is amazing but this is the greatest book!!! I never get sick of reading it.
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Summary: it helped me so much....
Review: This book is phenomenal. I had just been dumped out of the blue and I went to the library. I had read Weetzie Bat and Girl Goddess #9 and I wanted more. I'm a senior in college and this book had a lot to give me. I even got a copy for my x boyfriend... hopefully he'll read it and learn to understand what I learned to understand through it...
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Summary: Weetzie fans: READ THIS BOOK!
Review: This book is the 4th in a series which began with the awesome "Weetzie Bat," and progressed another 4 books detailing the lives of Weetzie's children, family, and friends. All 5 are great and worth checking out, but this one is my absolute favorite of the series.The story revolves around Witch Baby, Weetzie Bat's almost-daughter, who travels to New York City to find her love, Angel Juan, and bring him back to L.A. She meets an assortment of wonderful, magical people here, including the spirit of Weetzie's father. It is through the very real magic of love that Witch Baby is able to discover clues about Angel's whereabouts, and save him from a very tragic fate... The other 4 books in this series are written in a very breezy "Californian" way, but since we venture out of the warmth of the west coast and into the dark and chill of New York at Christmastime in this book, it is not surprising that the prose seems less light, yet still dreamlike, as Witch Baby wanders the streets with only her heart to lead her. It is this darkness, this endless searching that made me love this book. It is beautiful and haunting, sad yet uplifting, and very true to Witch Baby's character, as people who read the 2nd book in this series, named for this character, will know. Francesca Lia Block's writing is superb here, and her descriptions of everything, from the City itself to how Witch Baby feels when she catches a cold are so vivid you can almost see and feel everything in this book, like they were a dream you just woke up from. This is a great book for anyone in love, having love troubles, or searching for love, and anyone in between too! Reading the preceding 3 books will definately help you to understand the characters and plot a little better, so I'm also going to recommend "Weetzie Bat", "Witch Baby", and "Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys". Enjoy!
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Summary: Weetzie fans: READ THIS BOOK!
Review: This book is the 4th in a series which began with the awesome "Weetzie Bat," and progressed another 4 books detailing the lives of Weetzie's children, family, and friends. All 5 are great and worth checking out, but this one is my absolute favorite of the series. The story revolves around Witch Baby, Weetzie Bat's almost-daughter, who travels to New York City to find her love, Angel Juan, and bring him back to L.A. She meets an assortment of wonderful, magical people here, including the spirit of Weetzie's father. It is through the very real magic of love that Witch Baby is able to discover clues about Angel's whereabouts, and save him from a very tragic fate... The other 4 books in this series are written in a very breezy "Californian" way, but since we venture out of the warmth of the west coast and into the dark and chill of New York at Christmastime in this book, it is not surprising that the prose seems less light, yet still dreamlike, as Witch Baby wanders the streets with only her heart to lead her. It is this darkness, this endless searching that made me love this book. It is beautiful and haunting, sad yet uplifting, and very true to Witch Baby's character, as people who read the 2nd book in this series, named for this character, will know. Francesca Lia Block's writing is superb here, and her descriptions of everything, from the City itself to how Witch Baby feels when she catches a cold are so vivid you can almost see and feel everything in this book, like they were a dream you just woke up from. This is a great book for anyone in love, having love troubles, or searching for love, and anyone in between too! Reading the preceding 3 books will definately help you to understand the characters and plot a little better, so I'm also going to recommend "Weetzie Bat", "Witch Baby", and "Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys". Enjoy!
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Summary: Block haunts and heals with "Missing Angel Juan"
Review: This was my first exposure to Francesca Lia Block, and it, along with GIRL GODDESS #9, is one of my favorite books. MISSING ANGEL JUAN has a universal-ness and beauty. I was going through a time that I was having to let go of love when I read it, and it helped me to see that it was better to let go. I reccomend this to anyone remotely between the ages of 12 and 112 (yes, that is a bad cliche, but it's true).
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Summary: This book was amazing.
Review: When Angel Juan Perez leaves Weetzie Bat's almost-daughter Witch Baby Secret Agent Bat to live in New York City, Witch Baby is devastated. She vows to follow him, and does, living in the apartment that used to be her almost-grandfather Charlie Bat's. She meets his ghost and together they search new York for Angel Juan. Somehow, along the way, they find themselves
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Summary: if you don't see it...
Review: where were you when the stars fell? man, i don't know what to say, some of those reviews really make me wonder about francesca's readership :> but, i guess it's the minority? :) not sunny enough? witchbaby, to me, is the most beautiful character, i think the real dangerous angel, the one who seeks the most, has the most potential for transformation. why rehash the plot? remember the part where the masks come off? remember the part where she makes peace with the ghost of her father, with abandonment, with life without (happy)endings? going to coney island, falling, finding (maybe just because i lived close enough to coney island a lot of my life, but it's mystical, surreal, beautiful) she has such a true way of writing about 'the quest', the girl-goddess finding sorrow and light, like the last unicorn. but she started out with sorrow and found the tangly threads of art and love weaving in. witchbaby is living out her deep desires, working to save her secret self of love, working/willing to be real even though the world is falling all around her, and it is, but it's true, she can fly. okay, i admit, it's pretty cool to be a jinn's daughter, but :> all of us fatherless witch-girls must have imagined the like... with the most depth of any of francesca's characters, witchbaby is struggling to be at peace with herself, to be real. sunny? heh no, it's luminous, it's brilliant, it's shining like 3 moons. and you know she will find him, the Boy, because looking at everything, looking and seeing herself (and her love) unmasked, she is free.
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