taken from Goodreads:
"When Bee woke up, there was a girl standing in her room. "You are me," the girl said. Then she was gone. I am a thirteen-year-old double Gemini. I get bad grades, write poetry with my left hand, dance in my room, surf the net. I Google images of the tattoos my mom won't let me get. . . . But my world belongs to someone else. Someone who lives below the concrete of Los Angeles, someone with wild eyes and twigs in her hair. And I think she wants her life back."
Francesca Lia Block has a reputation for writing evocative fairy tales in prose that's so luscious you want to spoon it onto fresh fruit and gobble it down. In that sense, her newest book doesn't disappoint. The writing is absolutely lovely -- sensual, brilliant, and wildly imaginative. Block covers new ground here, too, delving into old fairy stories about changelings and identity, self and belonging. But too much of what happens here, in both plot and with the characters, feels like old ground if you've read many of her other works. There's a formulaic sense to the character development, and the plot just feels incomplete, like it was cobbled together regardless of the gaping holes left. The book started with so much promise, but by the end, much of that promise was left unfulfilled.
