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The Waters & The Wild (2009)

by Francesca Lia Block(Favorite Author)

3.38 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0061452440 (ISBN13: 9780061452444)

languge

English

genre

Paranormal Fantasy

publisher

HarperTeen

review 1: Bee is a girl who doesn't belong in the world, and she gets mysterious visits from a girl who looks like her. This girl says that Bee has taken her life and she wants it back. She doesn't know what this means, but poems and references throughout the book suggest that Bee might not be her mother's true child; she might be a changeling instead. In a quest to feel more comfortable with the world she lives in, she finds herself bonding with Sarah--a girl who sings very well and has dreams of being a slave in a previous life--and Haze--a boy who has acne and a stutter, who feels that he is an alien from outer space. Bee and Haze and Sarah become a tight threesome who finally feel at home with each other, and they experience various forms of magic together until finally Bee real... moreizes where she needs to go and why.I liked the unlikely friendship here and the creepy undertones of all of their history, because let's face it, stories about misfits are a lot of fun! The characters are not particularly well realized, and they're just sort of lumped together and assigned a bond, but I still thought it was satisfying and mysterious in all the right places.
review 2: Found this on the shelf at the library and since I already had about fifteen books I thought why not add this to the pile. I used to be a huge fan of FLB when I was 15 and I devoured practically everything she wrote. I had almost all of her books (and I was pissed because I had lent them all but one to some chick I worked with and one day she left and never came back and neither did my books:/). When I was in my mid teens, these books meant so much to me. They were lyrical and mysterious, full of skinny, pretty girls like I wanted to be and sex like I wanted to have. It was all so...foreign and forbidden. And now that I'm 24, and have attained some of the things I didn't have at 15, I am less than impressed by her books. Her writing seems more juvenile than anything, not saying its BAD, but simply something that younger teens would enjoy more than adults. I feel like she tries too hard to be whimsical and beautiful but she just ends up sounding silly and convoluted. I will probably continue to read her new books (but only from the library) just because she DOES have a special place in my heart since I grew up on her stuff but that doesn't mean I love them. The Waters & the Wild is about a girl named Bee who sees her doppelgänger in her room one night and tries to figure out what that means. She meets two new friends in the process; one believes himself to be an alien and the other, a reincarnated slave from the 1800s. Yeah. less

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