{"id":45,"date":"2005-11-21T16:31:11","date_gmt":"2005-11-21T20:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books-test\/?p=45"},"modified":"2005-11-21T16:31:11","modified_gmt":"2005-11-21T20:31:11","slug":"necklace-of-kisses-by-francesca-lia-blockharpercollins-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/necklace-of-kisses-by-francesca-lia-blockharpercollins-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Necklace of Kisses by Francesca Lia BlockHarperCollins, 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weetzie Bat is all grown up (Cherokee and Witch Baby are in college!) and life with her secret-agent lover-man isn&#8217;t as perfect as it should be. So she packs a suitcase and heads off to the pink hotel, where, of course, she meets all sorts of interesting people, and all sorts of strange things happen. Block&#8217;s prose is as luminescent as always: Los Angeles of the jacaranda flowers twinkling lights, city of canyons and punk shows Sunset Boulevard; sushi and champagne and grapefruit juice with tonic water. The story&#8217;s fairy-tale frame is wonderful, and familiar characters mostly feel like logical progressions of themselves from the earlier books: Witch Baby with her head shaved, Ping and Valentine still together. The few chick-lit details annoyed me (the cover design, the fact that Weetzie has a cell phone and watches TV [<i>Sex and the City<\/i> and <i>Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/i>] and reads fashion magazines), but there were enough magical or beautiful or smart details (a character named Hilda Doolittle!) to make up for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weetzie Bat is all grown up (Cherokee and Witch Baby are in college!) and life with her secret-agent lover-man isn&#8217;t as perfect as it should be. So she packs a suitcase and heads off to the pink hotel, where, of course, she meets all sorts of interesting people, and all sorts of strange things happen. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}