Beautiful Boys

Weetzie Bat #4-5

by Francesca Lia Block

Two darkly magical Weetzie Bat stories about the search for self from Francesca Lia Block: Missing Angel Juan and Baby Be-Bop.

Genres: Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance, Magical Realism, Fiction, Teen

304 pages, Paperback

First published July 6, 2004

About the author

Francesca Lia Block is the author of more than twenty-five books of fiction, non-fiction, short stories and poetry. She received the Spectrum Award, the Phoenix Award, the ALA Rainbow Award and the 2005 Margaret A. Edwards Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as other citations from the American Library Association and from the New York Times Book Review, School Library Journal and Publisher’s Weekly. She was named Writer-in-Residence at Pasadena City College in 2014. Her work has been translated into Italian, French, German Japanese, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish and Portuguese. Francesca has also published stories, poems, essays and interviews in The Los Angeles Times, The L.A. Review of Books, Spin, Nylon, Black Clock and Rattle among others. In addition to writing, she teaches creative writing at University of Redlands, UCLA Extension, Antioch University, and privately in Los Angeles where she was born, raised and currently still lives.

Reviews

[Emily Colette Love · Rating 5 out of 5]

beautiful boys taught me that in order to move forward you have to understand what’s behind you. then you have to let it go. let it go, but hold on at the same time? seems like bogus to me. but it’s not, understand which parts to hold on to. this book taught me that it is okay to not know, to forget once in a while that i am still gripping something i need to let go of, and that the process of letting go is painful.

[.. · Rating 5 out of 5]

We all need to find a time to realize that we need to let go of the past. But from our past is a story. A story we all have to tell. And we need to tell it to someone, some day, one way or another. What's your story?

[Erica · Rating 2 out of 5]

Whenever I finish a book by francesca lia block, i'm not entirely sure if i liked it or not. She writes sort of like a girly Neil Gaiman, with fantasy and reality all mixed up together, except hers is much less believable. She relies too much on people getting caught up in the emotion of what her characters are going through and not enough on the plot. her characters are hard to relate to, as often times they lack depth. She does however consistantly maintain the same ephemeral quality throughout all of her books, and her style is unique. But looking back, I'm still not entirely sure if i liked this book or not. I'm leaing towards not.

[Ashley · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is amazing. All of blocks work is. This book took me inside the mind of a very lost "confused" boy looking for a way out. I usually dont read books more than once but this book is worth reading all over again.
Highly recc.

[Jen Show · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this last set most out of the series. Perhaps because the stories are more suited too the style - lots of people telling one another stories. I almost want to read the whole series through again now that I've finished.

[Leila · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quite magical - something more wonderful than fighting vampires and werewolves.

[Neda · Rating 4 out of 5]

So American..