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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. 2   jedimarri | Aug 18, 2009 |  Funny at first then got a little to creepy for me. (  ) JuliaKay | May 19, 2009 | Interesting how he uses three different first person narrators. He distinguishes Now and Then as well. I don't know how necessary that was. The main character is a female. She resorts to violence and yet her friend saves her from going to far. Perhaps that was a little contrived for the more palatable moral. He blends issues of identity in adolescents and bullying with magic, ghosts and fairies. It moves smoothly. It builds up and everything seems resolved at the end. Very solid piece of work. (  ) yarkan | Sep 9, 2008 | Although Imogene is the central heroine of Charles de Lint's urban fantasy novel, the story is told from three points of view including Imogene, her friend Maxine, and a ghost boy named Adrian. It can get confusing if you don't pay attention as the chapters switch from "then" to "now" and in the various points of view. Still, the story is engaging enough to keep you straight. The basic premise is: plucky bad girl moves to new town (trying to behave), makes friends with mousy sweet loser, and weird magical stuff starts to happen. The three major characters are developed well enough that when the story ends you want to know what is next for these girls. Imogene is a kick butt "nice" bad girl...think Angelina Jolie at 16 or 17 with short spiky hair. She becomes friends with Maxine and they rub off on each other in positive ways. I enjoyed that Imogene was a cool tough chick but she wasn't breaking laws or being a punk. She actually defended other people and tried to do the right thing. Definitely would like to see a sequel in the future and will try de Lint's other novels. ( )1 la_librarian | Jun 30, 2008 | I've been wanting to reread it almost since I put it down the first time I read it, and here we go. It was pretty much as good the second time around as the first. It's an urban fantasy about what happens when a new girl (Imogene) comes to school and strange things start happening to and around her. But she's the type to go and figure out what the heck is going on, and so she does, bringing her new friend Maxine with her. ( ) bluesalamanders | Mar 22, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
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In this book we meet two very different girls, Imogene and Maxine. Imogene isn't afraid to be different, and she has a past to prove it. You can generally find her dressed in punkish clothes, often with her tattoo's showing, and doing who knows what else to look fun and funky! Maxine lives an extremely sheltered life because of an overprotective mother and her clothes can only be described as "proper" which equates to "boring."
These unlikely pair of girls become best friends after Imogene moves into the area. Slowly they begin to influence each other. Imogene helps Maxine to loosen up a little bit, and to eventually break free from some of her mother's restraints. Maxine, in turn, teaches Imogene the value of studying, and helps to teach her some other values as well.
There's a twist though, the school is haunted by a boy named Adrian, and he becomes friends with Imogene. The school also holds a handful of fairies, and Imogene refuses to believe Adrian that their real. So the fairies set off to prove their existence to Imogene, and in the process accidentally bring her into the focus of some extremely nasty other world characters! (