Customer Reviews
A FASCINATING EXPERIENCE! - By: , 28 Aug 1998 
I have read & loved all of Block's books, but Missing Angel Juan made the most profound impact on me. This isn't like reading a book, it's an expansion & exploration of the imagination. After finishing the book, it played through my head like a movie. Like a dream you thought was real.
it lacked of real life. - By: , 25 Jun 1998 
Missing Angel Juan is a book about two lovers, one looking for the other one. The story revolves around Angel Juan & Witchbaby, but then one dissapears & then the story turns to only Witchbaby. These two characters are musicians who are trying to figure out their future. The setting takes placein the suburbian streets of a down town neiborhood. Somewhere along the story these two lovers got seperated & only one thing will bring them together again. Witchbaby & her roomate Weetzie recieved out of the blue sky a postcard from New York. It was from Angel Juan, Witchbaby who was so deeplyin love decided to go to New york & look for him. At New York Witchbaby meets a friend that would be the key partin the story. This individual is already dead & only Witchbaby can see him or talk to him. Witchbaby realzing that New York is a very big place, she starts to go to all the places where Angel Juan & her had shared a feeling or an event. In this book faith, love desperation, dedication & perseverance will once more re-unite these two lovers. I'm not a reader, I do not enjoy reading books, so basically I didn't like the book. It lacked of many requirements for choosing a book. The story is hard to follow, no sense of humor, it bagan very realistic & then it lost it's course. I hated the ending because I didn't expect & because it's lausy. This book has not changed my mind about reading, but it's missing some reality to the plot & ending, for example Witchbaby was able to see & talk to spirits. My comments are basedin what I think about this book, now, I'm not a writter & don't want to offend the author.
Block haunts and heals with "Missing Angel Juan" - By: , 26 Mar 1998 This was my first exposure to Francesca Lia Block, & it, along with GIRL GODDESS #9, is one of my favorite books. MISSING ANGEL JUAN has a universal-ness & beauty. I was going through a time that I was having to let go of love when I read it, & it helped me to see that it was better to let go. I reccomend this to anyone remotely between the ages of 12 & 112 (yes, that is a bad cliche, but it's true).
A gorgeous, universally appealing novel - By: , 26 Mar 1997 "Missing Angel Juan" is a beautiful story toldin beautiful prose. Although Block's novels are categorized under "young adult," readers of any age will be affected by the main character's learning to let go of what she loves. Block's prose appeals to any age, too: her novel is a string of gorgeous poetry that the reader wishes will never end. "Missing Angel Juan" will fill your head with unexpected poetry & your heart with emotion. This was the first novel that I read by Block, but this was all it took to make me a fan.
This book was amazing. - By: , 09 Feb 1997 When Angel Juan Perez leaves Weetzie Bat's almost-daughter Witch Baby Secret Agent Bat to livein New York City, Witch Baby is devastated. She vows to follow him, & does, livingin the apartment that used to be her almost-grandfather Charlie Bat's. She meets his ghost & together they search new York for Angel Juan. Somehow, along the way, they find themselves.
