Love in the Time of Global Warming
Seventeen-year-old Penelope (Pen) has lost everything—her home, her parents, and her ten-year-old brother. Like a female Odysseus in search of home, she navigates a dark world full of strange creatures, gathers companions and loses them, finds love and loses it, and faces her mortal enemy. In...
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Seventeen-year-old Penelope (Pen) has lost everything—her home, her parents, and her ten-year-old brother. Like a female Odysseus in search of home, she navigates a dark world full of strange creatures, gathers companions and loses them, finds love and loses it, and faces her mortal enemy. In her signature style, Francesca Lia Block has created a world that is beautiful in its destruction and as frightening as it is lovely. At the helm is Pen, a strong heroine who holds hope and love in her hands and refuses to be defeated.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780805096279 (0805096272)
ASIN: 805096272
Publish date: August 27th 2013
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Teen,
Science Fiction,
Romance,
Magical Realism,
Dystopia,
Apocalyptic,
Post Apocalyptic,
Glbt,
Mythology
Series: Love in the Time of Global Warming (#1)
Book content warnings:homophobic slursThis . . . is a book that's very hard to rate. On one hand, I love the fact that there's LGBT+ representation, and I want to support it! On the other . . . I'm not sure how much I actually enjoyed the book as a whole.I do need to say how much I loved the writing...
Love in the Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block is one of those books that dazzles and sparkles, but once you look through all that and get down to the details, it starts to lose some of its shine.There's just so much going on in the limited amount of space provided that certain plot point...
This is one of those times where my logical brain pisses me off. For some reason, the blurb of this book made me think that perhaps the fantastical goings on in Love in the Time of Global Warming were not real – that they were a story Pen was telling. And I was wrong. But I couldn’t accept this fact...
This YA novel was a fairly loose retelling of The Odyssey, and it didn't work all that well for me. I thought the writing was lovely, but I didn't particularly care for the story as Block told it. I thought it was difficult to follow, and there were certain plot elements that seemed to be added more...
Not my thing. I didn't care for the way Block incorporated The Odyssey. Didn't make any sense to me and didn't help with the flow of the story, IMO. It just felt forced and weird.
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