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Feb 17, 2022flourpetals rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Nope, nope, nope. I couldn't finish this one. The writing is immaculate, but that just makes the gore and sadistic characters more real. Also, this slightly mirrors real life happenings and gave me nightmares. If this author ever…
Jul 25, 2017SCL_Justin rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Drowned Cities is a sequel to Ship Breaker, but not a direct one. It features Tool, the half-man war machine from Ship Breaker, but also two new characters who live in what was once long ago the eastern seaboard of…
Aug 16, 2015GuyN rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
This book really puts the dys in dystopia. Bacigalupi continues to write well, but going into gory details about child soldiers, mutilation, and sadism was too graphic for me. In some parts of the world today, this is close to reality. …
Jul 17, 2015
Bacigalupi has a grim, realistic handle on what the future may hold: depleted resources, rising seas, and different factions grasping for hope, answers, and weapons.
layna14
Feb 10, 2014
I'm looking for more good dystopian books- I've already read Hunger Games, Divergent, Legend, The Selection, Matched, The Maze Runner, Delirium, and I think a couple more... is this series any good??
mvkramer
Sep 27, 2013mvkramer rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
What I love most about this book is how real it feels. A lot of dystopias suffer from fundamentally unrealistic premises, but The Drowned Cities, like Ship Breaker, really feels like it could happen. I loved Mahlia as a protagonist. She is…
Sep 04, 2013danomcd rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
Disappointing - I really enjoyed the first book and though that while this wasn't a true sequel it might inter-twin with the first book. Instead I found myself continually asking "why am I reading this" from the other reviews I thought the…
Jul 05, 2013
This is a fantastic dystopia as it incorporates contemporary issues, like feuding warlords and child soldiers, into a futuristic setting. This is not a happy book, and it can be somewhat disturbing in places, but it is very compelling. The…
Apr 11, 2013JihadiConservative rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
nothing great about this book. some entertaining action but disturbing massacers
Jan 13, 2013hanstra rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This book totally blew me away! I had read Shipbreakers, and I thought it was alright, so I felt obligated to read the next novel. And WOW! Absolutely amazing! Completely different perspective in this book, different issues, and in my…
Aug 07, 2012Superman_Wu rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Just as awesome as Bacigalupi's Ship Breaker. I hope Bacigalupi make's another novel bridging both the stories of the Drowned Cities and the Ship Breaker - otherwise I found both endings unfortunate cliff-hangers to ponder.
Jun 29, 2012
So let's start off with the statement that this is not a sequel to Ship Breaker - but it is set in the same "world" and same time period, but we've got a new cast of characters. It's considered a companion novel. This was a strange book…
Jun 26, 2012ychi rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
OH MY GOD I LOVE TOOL. *clears throat* Now that I've got that out of my system, we can proceed normally. Or as normally as such a good book will allow. The Drowned Cities throws us back into Paolo Bacigalupi's run-down world, and with…
m2
Jun 25, 2012m2 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Bacigalupi is amazing! I loved this book (tho' it did have one too many switchbacks in the middle of the book.). Welcome to a post-oil usa where because of the rising water levels and the lack of any gas, people have devolved into small…
Jun 17, 2012
Great book!!!! Could not put it down!! A great sequel to 'Ship Breaker' definitely a good read!
May 23, 2012StephenB rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Another excellent book from Bacigalupi, a semi-sequel to "Ship Breaker" I believe. (The character Tool, a specially bred super-soldier with some dog ancestry, figures in the earlier book.) This is another story set in Bacigalupi's…