terminally wistful, without being sickly or saccharine.

10.2005
5/5 Stars
Weetzie Bat is all grown up and having a mid-life crisis at age 40. My Secret Agent Lover Man, who is now just Max, and Weetzie haven’t been having good times for 2 years, so Weetzie goes off to a pink hotel where she experiences magic kisses and re-discovers life and love. Wonderful.

I haven’t read any other Weetzie Bat books, but I sure liked this one. For one thing, I can’t help but love a book with such a cool 40yo heroine. For another, the magic realism and the L.A. environs made me nostalgic for the time when I first fell in love. This was a light read and a thoroughly enjoyable one.

I put that it is worth consuming, because I believe just about every book is worth consuming – for soemone. Actually, I think this a nice little book, just not my cup of tea. Probably will be a big hit with Weetzie Bat fans – I missed all that, so I couldn’t relate. Cute story, though.

Sort of amazing to catch up with Weetzie Bat again. Even at forty, she’s still a flake. I really liked the anima/animus idea, very interesting. This was happy and sad altogether, and definitely a different tone from past books. More mature, thank god.