Absolutely adored, i was afraid this book wouldn't meet the standards i gave it or add up to how much i enjoyed the first book but boy was i wrong!! highly recommend but do read the first book before this one. ( )

Another whimsical foray into the apocalypse via the Aeneid, Lia Block style. ( )

like the previous - very surreal, very quick. ( )

This was an okay sequel to Love in the Time of Global Warming. I didn't like it nearly as much as the original book, although there was some beautiful imagery throughout.

Pen and her friends are making a life for themselves in the pink house on the beach. The world has ended but they are still surviving. Then a mysterious boat shows up on the shore and this boat brings up all the bad in our characters’ pasts and makes them relive it. Our characters end up heading out on yet another adventure to the Island of Excess Love. The story was written to loosely follow Virgil’s Aeneid.

The plot is very straight-forward and predictable, not nearly as dreamy and ambiguous as Love in the Time of Global Warming. I always enjoy Block’s beautiful sparkle in her writing, but that just wasn’t present in this book. The beautiful description is there, but our character feel downtrodden and tired...they aren’t finding beauty in this desolate world like they did in the first book.

The characters are not nearly as easy to engage with as they were in the first book either. In fact I flat out disliked them throughout much of the story. They make very poor decisions and treat each other poorly, there isn’t much heroic about this story.

Overall this was an okay read but a disappointing follow up to Love in the Time of Global Warming. Everything about this story felt tired. I would only recommend reading if you really loved Love in the Time of Global Warming and are dying to find out what happened to Pen and crew after that book. ( )

Since this is the second book in a series I don't want to complain too much since I didn't read the first one. I did feel out of the loop in this "young adult" journey to the ":Island of Excess Love" . It seems a little bit beyond both in the explicit sexual content in spots and the dreamlike illusions on the quest for your average young teens unless they are pretty mature in their tastes. This is another quest story. In this one a magic boat appears and takes five teens to a place where they are put under enchantment by a horn headed (and horny) king and his sister. If that is your thing, you will like the book. ( )