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Pretty Dead

by Francesca Lia Block

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ISBN13: 9780061547850
ISBN10: 0061547859
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People pity me, but mostly they feel envy. I have all the luxury and freedom a girl my age could want.

Something is happening to Charlotte Emerson. Like the fires that are ravaging the hills of Los Angeles, it consumes her from the inside out. But whether it is her eternal loneliness, the memory of her brother, the return of her first love, or the brooding, magnetic Jared—she cannot say. What if it's something more . . .

Something to do with the sudden tear in her perfect nails. The heat she feels when she's with Jared. The blood rushing once again to her cheeks and throughout her veins.

For Charlotte is a vampire, witness to almost a century's worth of death and destruction. But not since she was a human girl has mortality touched her.

In what way will you be transformed?

Until now.

Synopsis:

People pity me, but mostly they feel envy. I have all the luxury and freedom a girl my age could want.

Something is happening to Charlotte Emerson. Like the fires that are ravaging the hills of Los Angeles, it consumes her from the inside out. But whether it is her eternal loneliness, the memory of her brother, the return of her first love, or the brooding, magnetic Jared—she cannot say. What if it's something more . . .

Something to do with the sudden tear in her perfect nails. The heat she feels when she's with Jared. The blood rushing once again to her cheeks and throughout her veins.

For Charlotte is a vampire, witness to almost a century's worth of death and destruction. But not since she was a human girl has mortality touched her.

In what way will you be transformed?

Until now.

About the Author

Francesca Lia Block, winner of the prestigious Margaret A. Edwards Award, is the author of many acclaimed and bestselling books, including Weetzie Bat; the book collections Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books and Roses and Bones: Myths, Tales, and Secrets; the illustrated novella House of Dolls; the vampire romance novel Pretty Dead; and the gothic werewolf novel The Frenzy. Her work is published around the world.

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Kirsten, April 17, 2010 (view all comments by Kirsten)
This book was a confusing muddle, and like much of Block's other recent work, it feels unfinished. Block seems to have gotten really lazy about using characters' clothes and their brand names as shortcut characterization. She's always used clothing in an almost fetishistic way (or in an out-and-out magical way, as in "Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys"), but the way she used brand name clothing in this novel just felt lazy.

There are portions of the novel that I really enjoyed; I liked the vignettes describing how Char and William were present for some of the greatest disasters in recent history, and the feeling that doom followed them. But most of the novel just didn't make that much sense. [close]
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780061547850
Author:
Block, Francesca Lia
Publisher:
Harper Teen
Author:
cesca Lia
Author:
Block, Fran
Subject:
Death
Subject:
Vampires
Subject:
Love & Romance
Subject:
Horror & Ghost Stories
Subject:
Children s-General
Edition Description:
Hardcover
Publication Date:
20090931
Binding:
HARDCOVER
Grade Level:
from 9
Language:
English
Pages:
208
Dimensions:
7.125 x 5 in 8.48 oz
Age Level:
14-17

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Product details 208 pages Harper Teen - English 9780061547850 Reviews:
"Synopsis" by , People pity me, but mostly they feel envy. I have all the luxury and freedom a girl my age could want.

Something is happening to Charlotte Emerson. Like the fires that are ravaging the hills of Los Angeles, it consumes her from the inside out. But whether it is her eternal loneliness, the memory of her brother, the return of her first love, or the brooding, magnetic Jared—she cannot say. What if it's something more . . .

Something to do with the sudden tear in her perfect nails. The heat she feels when she's with Jared. The blood rushing once again to her cheeks and throughout her veins.

For Charlotte is a vampire, witness to almost a century's worth of death and destruction. But not since she was a human girl has mortality touched her.

In what way will you be transformed?

Until now.

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