Pretty Dead

Written by Francesca Lia Block

A lonely, ageless girl in Los Angeles feels something changing inside her.

3.3 Goodreads · 2,179 ratings

208 pages· 28,983 words· Est. 2.5 hour read· ~720L

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Bookroo's summary

Charlotte Emerson has lived for almost a century as a vampire, watching death and destruction while never aging. Now, as fires ravage the hills of Los Angeles, something inside her is changing: a tear in her perfect nails, heat when she's near the magnetic Jared, blood rushing to her cheeks. Is it loneliness, the memory of her brother, or the return of her first love? Or is mortality finally touching her again?

From the publisher

People pity me, but mostly they feel envy. I have all the luxury and freedom a girl my age could want.Something is happening to Charlotte Emerson. Like the fires that are ravaging the hills of Los Angeles, it consumes her from the inside out. But whether it is her eternal loneliness, the memory of her brother, the return of her first love, or the brooding, magnetic Jared–she cannot say. What if it’s something more . . .Something to do with the sudden tear in her perfect nails. The heat she feels when she’s with Jared. The blood rushing once again to her cheeks and throughout her veins.For Charlotte is a vampire, witness to almost a century’s worth of death and destruction. But not since she was a human girl has mortality touched her.In what way will you be transformed?Until now.

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