Love in the Time of Global Warming

I.... don't know??? I maybe didn't totally get it? I read [b:Dangerous Angels 14565 Dangerous Angels (Weetzie Bat, #1-5) Francesca Lia Block https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1166639454s/14565.jpg 990480] a few years ago and I liked it. I think what's weird to me about this is it's partly magical realism, where there are just magical butterflies and visions and whatever, just because, but then it's partly dystopian sci-fi where she's tried to explain it with science and cloning and genetic modifications??? But then if you're explaining some stuff that way, then what's the science for the magic butterflies??? They're just magical magic or??? Versus in the Weetzie Bat books it's just all kind of vaguely magical with no ~science.~ IDK, this might not bother another reader but for me I just kept getting pretty hung up on that.Also: in college I had a history professor who told me not to use so many block quotes, because everyone just skims past those. And she was right. I feel the same way about blocks of text in italics. Like, a third of this book is in italics and my instinct was always just to skim past it. Couldn't they have come up with some other way to set that apart? Maybe just chapter titles? Or a non-italic, different font?? That's a petty quarrel, but still: irritating.Uhh but that said, FLB's a beautiful writer, and her characters' fluid sexuality and gender is still great, and I think this book will be beloved by a lot of artsy teenagers.