Maia, I finally read it! It was nice to dip back into FLB's writing, having not read anything of hers in a while. This wasn't my absolute favorite of her books (I'll always be partial to Weetzie Bat), but I appreciated that she took the popularity of vampire teen lit and gave it a twist. Charlotte is a vampire who lives disguised as a human and hates immortality -- it's made her witness to more death and destruction than she cares to remember. But this story begins with signs of her slowly returning to being human... 
 Favorite quotes: 
 "Emily, none of this is worth it. Not this endangered blond hair, not this house full of shining things, not the velvets and pearls and shiny red-soled shoes of fortune, not even this beautiful curse of immortality. What you had, even with the pain -- that was life. What I have, especially now, without you, without the other one I loved and lost, is just living. Dead." 
 "When you become only art and not the artist, the girl in the shocking-pink dress, what becomes of your soul?" 
 "We talked about the way artists had suffered and changed their pain into beauty. How it saved some but not others."