The last book in the Weetzie Bat series finds our heroine having turned 40 and in the middle of a mid- life crisis. Will she find her way back through a series of magical events? Enjoyable as always, with all the characters you love.

Good background from Elizas POV

I love the end of this volume. It is a side story about my favorite character and it is beautiful. The rest of the volume is good too.

In this volume Nana gets swept up in love for the first time. We also learn that something happened between Yamamoto and Yano. "I wonder if there's a limit to love."

Interesting account of what it is like for women in prison. Infuriating at times, it will leave you wanting to know where these women are now, and if they were able to recover from the trauma inflicted on them by our unfair prison system.

I wanted to like this book more, but the two main characters drove me a bit crazy with their indecisiveness.

An amazing family saga that also tackles race in both the Jim Crow south and California and New York in the early eighties.

The panic Nozaki feels every time his real life friends start to have relationships he doesn't want the characters in his story to have- or the reverse!- is one of the less common running gags, but it's one of my favorites. So few people realize that's what he did, and some of his friends have their heads so far in the clouds, they probably never will. Having your head in the clouds isn't exclusive to high schoolers though ??

Interesting material if the subject matters is of interest but not overly exciting.

The running gag of people mistaking one of the girls for a boy because she's called the Prince and nobody bothers to correct them is really cute. Nobody is that fussed about Kashima wearing a boy's uniform or surprised that the other girls like to spend time with her. She's just doing her thing, and the only reason anyone has a problem with her is that she's usually late for her after school activity. The excitement high schoolers would have for a pillow fight where you actually fight was the sort of reaction that would get people in class in trouble.