A review by goodem9199
Blood Roses by Francesca Lia Block

5.0

Francesca Lia Block is one of those writers that makes me fall in love with writing. It isn't even so much about the story, as it is about the actual words she strings together. This is a collection of strange and beautiful stories with lines like "a palm tree was wearing a dress of ivy"; it has a character named "Fleurette", who I instead of the diner waitress I imagined her to be, lives in a home with a haunted doll house. Then there is the story of the girl who falls in love with a tattoo artist, and suddenly begins to develop intricate tattoos all over her body. Just dreamy, lyrical, amazing writing.