Francesca Lia Block

PRETTY DEAD Charlotte seems to have everything, but she's empty inside. She has lived for nearly a century in the body of a sixteen-year-old girl because she was changed by a vampire during a period of personal tragedy. Having lost her precious twin brother, she allows the darkly compelling William to take her on adventures, but though he gives her the world, he takes her mortality and replaces it with a monstrous existence that prevents her from feeling the way she did when she was human. Traveling the world seeing beautiful things--and disaster--Charlotte longs for the desire to make art and for beautiful human relationships, but when she finds Emily and Jared, her jealousy for their humanity only leads to more loss. This is a story about how Charlotte learns the meaning of life and death, and how she reclaims her humanity. Back to Francesca Lia Block Page