Los Angeles has its problems, but I couldn't imagine being that negative about such an interesting city.Īs others have mentioned, each chapter heading is really a punk song. She's a little too whiny about being sent to Los Angeles at the beginning. Beige, the main character, is actually the least engaging despite our hearing her inner monologue. Of course, I'm always partial to characters who are clumsy, but sincere. Garth seemed like a shoe-gazing sweetheart.
I especially liked Lake her dedication to her craft reminds me of a lot of musicians I know, but her practical approach to making her own success isn't as common. The teenagers in the story (Beige, Lake, and Garth) all seemed determined to make their own way in the world, not falling into the same traps as the previous generation. The Rat's struggles to stay sober seem real you really cheer for him when you see him making model airplanes or drumming to escape that urge to use. Castellucci isn't afraid to delve into the psychology of addiction - almost all of the adult characters in the book are recovering drug addicts, and you can see the very real consequences of life after an intoxicated youth. The story is fairly predictable, but the characterizations were spot-on. This book combines some of my favorite things - Los Angeles (especially the neighborhoods of Silver Lake, Los Feliz, and Hollywood), punk music, libraries, and French (due to the main character's origins in Montreal). You could end up like Elliott Smith, stabbed right in the heart." "Why does everyone want to be a musician? Music is dangerous. I'd really want to give it 3.5 stars, but I tipped the rating because I liked the setting of the book so much. She splits her time between the heart and the head and lives north and south of everything.
The Year of the Beasts was a finalist for the PEN USA literary award and Odd Duck was Eisner nominated. She is the recipient of the California Book Award Gold Medal for her picture book Grandma's Gloves, illustrated by Julia Denos, the Shuster Award for Best Canadian Comic Book Writer for The Plain Janes and the Sunburst Award for Tin Star. Her short stories have been published in various places including Black Clock, The Rattling Wall, Tor.com, Strange Horizons, Apex Magazine and can be found in such anthologies such as After, Teeth, Truth & Dare, The Eternal Kiss, Sideshow and Interfictions 2 and the anthology, which she co-edited, Geektastic. Titles include Boy Proof, The Year of the Beasts (illustrated by Nate Powell), First Day on Earth, Rose Sees Red, Beige, The Queen of Cool The Plain Janes and Janes in Love (illustrated by Jim Rugg), Tin Star Stone in the Sky, Odd Duck (illustrated by Sara Varon) and Star Wars: Moving Target: A Princess Leia Adventure. Cecil Castellucci is an author of young adult novels and comic books.
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