Audience: Young Adult Format: Hardcover/Library Copy Chains clanked in the darkness of the holding cells. - first sentence This book comes from the same universe as Shipbreaker. In this book, Mahlia and Mouse managed to find each other and escape the Drowned Cities and live with a doctor in a ...
A worthwhile followup to Bacigalupi's Ship Breaker, though perhaps not quite as richly built. Bacigalupi has proven himself one of the brighter lights in science fiction, and the writing in this admittedly dark book only reinforces the thinking. Set in a post-oil, post climate-changed America that's...
I really enjoyed Ship Breaker, the companion book to the Drowned Cities by Paolo Bacigalupi. The world-building and settings for both books are incredibly vivid and masterfully written—however, I found the Drowned Cities’ plot to be muddled, and the intensity of the grittiness, violence, and chaos u...
How did this guy almost win a National Book Award?Ok, it was the Young People and not the big one, but still. The Drowned Cities (his second novel after the [I hope much better] Ship Breaker) isn't really an awful book and reads sort of well, and I guess it can raise some moral questions on the impo...
Continuing in the gritty backdrop of Ship Breaker Paolo Bacigalupi continues to churn out exemplary books that center around a dreary, bleak future. Although his prior novel was a bit limited in scope this one more than compensates as he presents a diverse group of characters struggling to get by as...
Set in the same fallen world as "Ship Breakers", this book follows the story of Mahlia, a young girl left to survive on her own after the Chinese peacekeepers abandon their efforts to stop the fighting in what is left of the eastern seaboard of the USA, now called the Drowned Cities. Mahlia is what ...
The sequelish book to Baciagalupi’s Printz-winning Ship Breaker (link takes you to my review). I liked the way the world has developed, and the complexity of the moral decisions. Also, when I realized exactly what the Drowned Cities is, it was kind of gut-punchy. Still, I didn’t get the extreme emot...
The Drowned Cities isn’t an easy read – it’s set in a war zone, after all. Life is difficult for everyone, but even more so for the half-breed children of the Chinese peacekeepers who left the Drowned Cities to its bloody dead when the warlords’ chaos got to be to much for them to contain.As one of ...
Important: Our sites use cookies.
We use the information stored using cookies and similar technologies for advertising and statistics purposes.
Stored data allow us to tailor the websites to individual user's interests.
Cookies may be also used by third parties cooperating with BookLikes, like advertisers, research companies and providers of multimedia applications.
You can choose how cookies are handled by your device via your browser settings.
If you choose not to receive cookies at any time, BookLikes will not function properly and certain services will not be provided.
For more information, please go to our Privacy Policy.
Log in with Facebook 
