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A review by zoemig
The Waters & the Wild by Francesca Lia Block
4.0
“Some people think you begin to grow up when you stop trying to figure out who you are.”
The Waters & The Wild (which takes its title from a Yeats poem) is the story of Bee, a rather unusual thirteen year old girl. Bee, as she describes herself is a “double Gemini girl-Scorpio moon- who lives with her therapist mom and her mom’s astrologer boyfriend in Venice, California; I go to school, where I get bad grades; I write poetry with my left hand, dance in my room, read books, listen to music, Google images of goblins and the tattoos my mom won’t let me get, dream of devouring my garden”.
Things start to change for Bee when she sees her doopleganger- a sign approaching death- who claims that Bee has stolen her life and she wants it back. In her quest to discover what is happening Bee befriends two other outsiders, Sarah the reincarnated soul of a slave girl, and Haze who was fathered by aliens. Sarah, Haze and Bee have never before fit in, but together the three of them create a world of their own as they try to figure out who Bee really is and where she belongs.
“We’re more powerful than we think,” Bee said. “We just haven’t explored it yet.”
Fortunately the cover isn’t the only thing that is gorgeous about this book. Earlier this week I lamented the failure of Pretty Dead to capture anything close to Block’s previous books, in particular Echo. In contrast, The Waters & The Wild, which is both a beautiful and original book. My major complaint of the book is that at a skimpy 115 pages (and tiny pages too, not normal sized ones) The Waters & The Wild is simply too short. The characters and the element of whimsy she created were so lovely that I only wish I’d had the opportunity to stay emersed in them a little bit longer. ****
The Waters & The Wild (which takes its title from a Yeats poem) is the story of Bee, a rather unusual thirteen year old girl. Bee, as she describes herself is a “double Gemini girl-Scorpio moon- who lives with her therapist mom and her mom’s astrologer boyfriend in Venice, California; I go to school, where I get bad grades; I write poetry with my left hand, dance in my room, read books, listen to music, Google images of goblins and the tattoos my mom won’t let me get, dream of devouring my garden”.
Things start to change for Bee when she sees her doopleganger- a sign approaching death- who claims that Bee has stolen her life and she wants it back. In her quest to discover what is happening Bee befriends two other outsiders, Sarah the reincarnated soul of a slave girl, and Haze who was fathered by aliens. Sarah, Haze and Bee have never before fit in, but together the three of them create a world of their own as they try to figure out who Bee really is and where she belongs.
“We’re more powerful than we think,” Bee said. “We just haven’t explored it yet.”
Fortunately the cover isn’t the only thing that is gorgeous about this book. Earlier this week I lamented the failure of Pretty Dead to capture anything close to Block’s previous books, in particular Echo. In contrast, The Waters & The Wild, which is both a beautiful and original book. My major complaint of the book is that at a skimpy 115 pages (and tiny pages too, not normal sized ones) The Waters & The Wild is simply too short. The characters and the element of whimsy she created were so lovely that I only wish I’d had the opportunity to stay emersed in them a little bit longer. ****