A review by thehmkane
The Island of Excess Love by Francesca Lia Block

5.0

It's gonna take me a long time to recover from this book, I think. I need a sequel, like, immediately. I care so much about these characters, I love the mythology references, and reading this book and its predecessor is like a dream. I highly recommend this to fans of post-apocalyptic and fantasy, but really to anyone looking for an excellent, quick read. Pen is an outstanding heroine, in part because she is fallible; she's not up on a pedestal for us to worship and adore, but more like we would be in her shoes.

This book hits a lot of diversity points, too. The main character has a disability, and pretty much everyone is queer and/or not white, canonically.