Lost Girls is so quirky and funny and dark and mysterious plus (this is shallow!) the cover is very eye-catching!:)

As you may be able to tell from the cover Margaret is not the best role model in the world, but she's been through a lot and is trying to escape her painful past (and less than thrilling job at Air-Pro Stewardess Training Institute) by losing herself in drugs and sex in Tokyo's exotic night life.

Those scenes can be pretty explicit, but the sadness and genuine pain she's in when she's trying to forget is unbelievably barren and almost strangely familiar to anyone hoping for a little oblivion.

Lost Girls is unlike anything I've read in a while;I have a feeling I'm going to be staying up late tonight reading this all the way through...having putting zombies aside....temporarily, of course!:)

p.s.

I just found out that the book is being made into a movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0920462/ ( )

I don't like to be negative about books by Goodreads' authors, but I really can't find anything good to say about this book at all other than the cover is really attractive. Ploughing through stories written in dialogue that people would never speak is depressing and pointless. The characters seem uncaring, apathetic, nihilistic as a way of appearing cool but actually just read as dreary. Filed on 'given-up' shelf. ( )

a very different book about a messed up girl trying to escape from herself while living in Tokyo. Filled with random sex with strange men, drinking to Oblivion, and when that doesn't work, taking drugs. Oddly enough it is also quite funny in a very dark way. ( )