After falling in love with the first book, I couldn't wait to read the next book. It gave me just what I wanted and more!So, the reader begins right back in the world of the Drowned Cities. Cities once above water not drowned in it. I thought I be reading about the characters from the first book ins...
I'll start by saying that Bacigalupi is really a great writer. He continues with the world that he created in his excellent debut, Shipbreaker, here. This novel is set in a different part of that world, with different characters, but he does pull in Tool, who was introduced in the Shipbreaker. Too...
Ship Breakers was a bit slow and took a while before I was anything more than just flipping pages; only much later, after the people in it had themselves wrapped around me, did I give a fig. Reading DROWNED CITIES was a little bit like that, only better. Things went fast, that for sure. There’s a g...
Review originally posted here.Why I Read It: I actually bought this before I even read Ship Breaker, so it was just a happy coincidence that I ended up liking the first book set in this world so much. I mostly bought it because this book has been receiving A LOT of favourable reviews from bloggers I...
Good world-building, lots of action, strong female main character. There's a lot of covert commentary on civil war, child soldiers, and the difficulty of imposing peace. It certainly resonates with Vietnam and many African conflicts. The narrative is picaresque in that the plot advances because adve...
One of my biggest selling points in any book is tension. I talk a lot in my reviews about tension, and generally it's because I'm talking about the lack of it. But what I mean when I talk about tension is a lot of things, actually. It's not just the internal tension in the story, between characters,...
A powerful story of war, loyalty, and survival. How one can create a family from nothing, overlooking differences to find connections. This story is beautiful in the face of incredible ugliness. Mahlia, in spite of her reputation as a self-serving "castoff", sacrificed any chance of safety by tracki...
O_O This book was amazing. Horrifying, realistic, and intense. I totally see this happening to us. Review to come. Ah, now I'm even happier that my book is autographed. :D
4.5Sometimes a book is just all that much better for being so disgustingly horrible. For not glossing over the gruesome details, for keeping the reader hooked in wide-eyed horror. This is that kind of book. The author doesn't waste his time on niceties, this story's about the harsh realities of surv...
I'm feeling kind of bad because this is the second book in the Ship Breaker series and I didn't read the first one. Even though I read them out of order, because I will be reading the first book, I have to say I really enjoyed The Drowned Cities. There were a few things that confused me, but I think...
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