You really need to have read Weetzie Bat for Witch Baby to make any sense. Witch Baby is the second book in her Dangerous Angels series and is her sophomore novel. In Witch Baby Francesca Lia Block really spreads her wings and finds her pace.
I do plan on going ahead with this series at some point. I think it's having the book be from a child's perspective. I thought Dirk and Duck could have had an interesting storyline if the story was focused there, but it wasn't. The story is really a Novella at about 80 pages. It wasn't horrible, but I don't really remember a lot either. I didn't connect with this story nearly as much as the first one. Witch Baby is experiencing alienation here and she is a drummer and a photographer and we don't know exactly how old she is here. We find out Witch Baby is actually My Secret Agent Lover Man's daughter with another mother. All the adults help to take care of Witch Baby, but she doesn't feel like she belongs and she stows away in the jeep of Dirk and Duck when they are on a weekend to Duck's parent's home and they don't know he's gay. They live in a house with several couples and Dirk and Duck are a gay couple. This story follows Witch Baby, the daughter that was left on Weetzie and My Secret Agent Lover-Man's doorstep. Now that is so normal that it isn't much of a big deal, but respect for the groundbreaker. It was one of the first books in the early 90s with gay characters for a young adult audience. It was so stylish and this California surfer greaser vibe.
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