Thursday, March 26, 2009

Pretties - Scott Westerfield

Finally got book two! His books are funny - they're fast paced and small-scoped, but wordy so that it takes several hundred pages to cover what is essentially a matter of days, with the occasional skimmed week. I find myself reading them in one chunk (or, rather, "one" chunk, which means throughout the day), which makes sense for how much get covered in the book but is also inevitably more time consuming than I realize or plan for. In other news...yeah, I want a hoverboard.

I also read the first couple of books of his Midnighters series. They're cute enough, but his books do tend to somewhat glamorize dangerous teenage tendencies, such as cutting in Pretties and goth self-importance in Midnighters.

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