The Island of Excess Love

The Island of Excess Love by Block, Francesca Lia. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780805096316.

This companion to Love in the Time of Global Warming follows Pen as she searches for love among the ruins, this time using Virgils epic Aeneid as her guide. A powerful and stunning book filled with Francesca Lia Blocks beautiful language and inspiring characters. In The Island of Excess Love, Pen has lost her parents. Shes lost her eye. But she has fought Kronen; she has won back her fragile friends and her beloved brother. Now Pen, Hex, Ash, Ez, and Venice are living in the pink house by the sea, getting by on hard work, companionship, and dreams. Until the day a foreboding ship appears in the harbor across from their home. As soon as the ship arrives, they all start having strange visions of destruction and violence. Trance-like, they head for the ship and their new battles begin.