Pretty Dead
Readers rate it 3.0 (2 on Hardcover)
231 pages · Released Sep 22, 2009 · Harper Collins
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Pretty Dead is a literary vampire novel that explores themes of immortality, isolation, and longing through a moody, introspective lens typical of Francesca Lia Block's style. While it contains some violence and references to death, the focus is more psychological and emotional than graphic. The book deals with mature themes including loss, desire, and existential emptiness that are better suited to older teens who can engage with its darker tone.
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People pity me, but mostly they feel envy. I have all the luxury and freedom a girl my age could want. Something is happening to Charlotte Emerson. Like the fires that are ravaging the hills of Los Angeles, it consumes her from the inside out. But whether it is her eternal loneliness, the memory of her brother, the ret... People pity me, but mostly they feel envy. I have all the luxury and freedom a girl my age could want. Something is happening to Charlotte Emerson. Like the fires that are ravaging the hills of Los Angeles, it consumes her from the inside out. But whether it is her eternal loneliness, the memory of her brother, the return of her first love, or the brooding, magnetic Jared—she cannot say. What if it's something more . . . Something to do with the sudden tear in her perfect nails. The heat she feels when she's with Jared. The blood rushing once again to her cheeks and throughout her veins. For Charlotte is a vampire, witness to almost a century's worth of death and destruction. But not since she was a human girl has mortality touched her. In what way will you be transformed? Until now.
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- Young Adult Fiction
- Fiction
- Young Adult
- Fantasy
- Death
- Supernatural
- Vampires
- Juvenile Fiction
- Children's fiction
- Supernatural, fiction
- Vampires, fiction
- Death, fiction
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ISBN 9780061924118 · Harper Collins