Product Description

This could be a book about cheap cheese and bean burritos, slinkster dogs, lanky lizards and rubber chickens ...Or strawberry sundaes with marshmallow toppings, surfing, stage-diving and sleeping on the beach ...It could even be a book about magic. But what it's definitely about is Weetzie Bat, her best friend Dirk and their search across L.A. for the most dangerous angel of all ...true love. The Dangerous Angels series continues with: 2. WITCH BABY (Sep '02), 3. CHEROKEE BAT AND THE GOAT GUYS (Sep '02), 4. MISSING ANGEL JUAN (Nov '02), 5. BABY BE-BOP (Jan '03)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #389402 in Books
• Published on: 2002-07-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 112 pages

Review
'Transcendent' - NY Times . 'Wonderful' - LA Times . 'Sparkling writing' - Pub. Weekly . 'Magical, moving, mischievous, and - literally - marvellous' - School Lib. Journal . From the ATOM teen panel: 'It's filled with things that real people face in the real world every day. This book is a must for every teenager' - Jessica (16) 'I really loved Dangerous Angels. It was so great that Dirk & Weetzie's wish came true-sort of like Aladdin, but cooler'- Becky (13) 'Block's imagination is startling throughout, and her writing is both street-cool and poetic. The series is hugely moreish...' GAY TIMES

Publishers Weekly
'Sparkling writing ... Block's extravagantly imaginative setting and finely honed perspectives remind the reader that there is magic everywhere'

School Library Journal
'Magical, moving and - literally - marvelous'

Customer Reviews

Why is this author not huge in the UK?
I stumbled across the title of this book while searching for something else on Amazon and decided to order it from my local bookshop. Well all I can say is ... WOW !! I ADORE this book. I love the writing style, the characters and the wonderful feeling it left me with when I finished reading [in ONE day I might add!] It was so great, that when I had read it, I turned to the beginning and read it again. This is unheard of for me. The story pulls you into Weetzie's world and you just want to be her and have the wonderful kinds of relationships she has. There are sad moments too but I just loved it, loved it, loved it. I'm desperate now to read any of FLB's other books but they are proving extremely difficult to find here in the UK ... Oh well, Amazon here I come. :o)

A stroke of genious...
This is definately one of my favourite books - it is beautiful, powerful, strange, real, unnerving, thoughtful, and absolutely wonderfully writen. I like it so much I have a hard time saying why, all I know is I could read it forever and never be bored with the characters, the lanscape, the ideas and the strengths.
One reviewer said they didn't think it was suitable for younger readers; and yes, it does deal with fairly adult themes, but in a soft, kind way, breaking ideas gentley; and while, threesomes are had, and charachters run away to covens of creepy voodoo witches, the charachters are always good, they act only out of love, and if I wanted to learn about soem of the "unsuitable" tiongs in life, i would want to do it through this book.
Block says she has always asosciated writing with love, and this slim volume more than proves this. Her charachters react, and act, always out of love, they are kind, but real. Block doeasn't hide any of their moments or their bad times from us, and this is what makes this book a stroke of genious.

simply amazing
this book is lovely. you will smile, cry and laugh out loud when you read it. it focuses on the lives of weetzie bat, her friends dirk and duck, her dog and her love my secret agent lover man and the adventures they have together. a must-read.