Necklace of Kisses: A Novel

by Francesca Lia Block

Book Overview

"Weetzie's many fans will most appreciate this reunion. . . but those just meeting Block's whimsical entourage and sparkling prose will also appreciate the book's message: that magic can be found in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060777524
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.5" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

I've missed you, Weetzie!

How comforting to know how Weetzie and her family are doing! I thought this book was excellent. I read it quickly, telling my husband to shut up when he tried to interupt. Some of the reviews mentioned the 9/11 thing was a little heavy but I didn't get that, it was mentioned once- and Max always was a little intense. God, I hope there's more! I loved Weetzie before, but now... Wow!

The always magical Francesca Lia Block

I was surprised to find that this book had almost slipped me by. I am usually up to speed on her books. This book was just as amazing and magical as all her Weetzie Bat books. At 26, I was just as enthralled as when I discovered Block's books over 10 years ago. In fact, her mid-life crisis kind of mirrored what I am going through now faced with growing older. I loved it.

The best of them all.....

I've read the series and this book which catches up with Weetzie is the best, maybe so because she is "current" with us today - all of us who have gone on with life and family and miss a little bit of the freedom and wildness of earlier years. There is much magic in this story. I tried to slow myself down and savor it, but I couldn't. In two days it was done - and I work full-time, too! Dive in and enjoy the mystery of her life......

Re-unite with Weetzie and company; still magical at age 40

Fans of Weetzie and friends from the early 1990's will love seeing them all again facing modern issues. Secret Agent Lover Man has been depressed since seeing the twin towers burn, and there are no more kisses in the marriage, so Weetzie sets out to the pink hotel of her high school prom to find some magic. Her adventures are a delight to the senses, filled with exotic people, foods, tastes, jewels, and Weetzie's bright sense of fashion. Everyone who loved the first magical world of Weetzie will not be disappointed. She has matured, and she deals with modern issues (including dishing about Botox), but her adventures are every bit as magical as before. I admire Block for creating a middle-aged heroine who is just as snazzy as she was in her 20's. Block also brings us back to the music Weetzie grew up on, which is a fun romp down memory lane. Witch Baby really comes into her own in this novel, and in a reading by author Block to promote this book, she hinted that she was feeling there was more to the Witch Baby story, and another book might be forthcoming.

She had to leave, Los Angeles

From the minute the UPS man delivered my book last week I was glued to the pages eating up every word of Weetzie's trip out of the cottage. I loved it so much and feel as though I actually was right there with her on her journey of love. The characters, scenery and images that Francesca Lia Block has woven into this take are as always, breathtaking and sparkling with love and light. I feel maybe there is something left unrevealed though, possibly concerning Witch Baby and her quest to find what she is looking for. Reading this book was like going to a reunion. All the characters we know and love are there as well as some new additions who OF COURSE we fall head over heels in love with. (H.D., Pan, and many others...I won't spoil it!!) Also this story's take on fashion brings to mind an essay that FLB wrote in Fresh Yarn about punk fashion, and couture coming together in different phases of our life. I love that FLB can write about bands we loved so much that we, as well as Weetzie, and FLB also saw and loved while growing up. It makes me shiver and get that feeling, like when you hear music that will eventually come to change your life. As a mother I love how Weetzie wishes love and happiness for her daughter's and once again see how FLB brings such a great sense of alternative motherhood into this story. I know that I am always looking for other mom's who are into different music and different clothes and FLB has embodied Weetzie as just this sort of mom, which coincedently FLB is as well. I just adored this book, I devoured it in an hour and can't wait to see where Weetzie and FLB will go next. Aren't we expecting another FLB in October? Or is that 2006...the sooner, the better. This is one magical author, woman, mother and goddess.