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Review title: Forced quirkiness - so why such the big deal?
Product review: I'm not sure how I feel about this book. It's not that I disliked it, it's more that I couldn't understand why everyone else loves it so much. I did, however, love Block's portrait of Hollywood/Los Angeles (as I have loved it in her other books) and for that I think I find it the one character in the novel for whom I have any fondness whatsoever. Aside from the setting, I didn't think much of the characters or the whole fantasy/fairy tale angle. It came off more pretentious than whimsical and more forced than honestly weird or controversial. But, again, I didn't hate it. I just keep thinking of Joi Brozek's Sleeveless and how much more honest and compelling a hip young adult work of alternative reality than this could ever be. It's probably a bad sign when the reader has to remind herself that the author is trying her hand at quirky.
