Fantasy
The title alone does a lot of the heavy lifting here. *Love In The Time Of Global Warming* sounds like it could be all atmosphere and aftermath, which is usually where I’m most interested anyway.
I’m curious whether it’s more survival story or more about the fragile bits of love that survive when the world has already gone sideways. Those two things can pull in opposite directions, and that tension is often the interesting part. Also, Francesca Lia Block seems like exactly the kind of writer who might make the setting feel like it’s pressing in on the characters instead of just sitting in the background.
I’m curious whether it’s more survival story or more about the fragile bits of love that survive when the world has already gone sideways. Those two things can pull in opposite directions, and that tension is often the interesting part. Also, Francesca Lia Block seems like exactly the kind of writer who might make the setting feel like it’s pressing in on the characters instead of just sitting in the background.
The title does suggest a book that’s more interested in mood than neat catastrophe mechanics, which I can live with. I’m usually more drawn to the aftermath than the event anyway. If the love story is doing real work under that ruined-LA backdrop, that’s the bit that might stick. Otherwise it risks becoming all weather and no pulse, which would be a shame.