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3.8 AVERAGE
3.8 AVERAGE
I really like this book. I enjoyed the characters, they were well rounded and believable. The story line was very exiting from the very first page on. I would recommend this book to everyone. A very good read
I did not enjoy this book as much as the first one, which was really disappointing because I LOVED the first one and had been eagerly anticipating this installment. There was too much blood and guts, less story, more violence, and the novelty of the setting wasn't there like it was in the first one (which would make sense, but still...) it felt like after reading the first one there was so much to this new future world to explore, and it just wasn't there this time. Too much time was spent sewing people up and describing gaping war wounds and the whole thing rang off like a child soldier book, which if I had wanted to read about it, I would have just read about. Really, I felt like I was reading a Lost Boy story or another horrifying Sierra Leone account... which I do appreciate, but based off the first book I was expecting something a little different. The imagination was lacking in this novel. I hope it comes back in the next one.
I'll write a more elaborate review later, but for now I'll just write a few sentences.
This was a really fantastic book. The writing itself reminded me of a children's or young adult kind of style, but the story was far more mature - and a lot more violent - than I was expecting. It suffers from a mild dip in plot and action midway through, but the ending is so good it's definitely worth reading. Because of that, it really deserves 4.5 stars.
This was a really fantastic book. The writing itself reminded me of a children's or young adult kind of style, but the story was far more mature - and a lot more violent - than I was expecting. It suffers from a mild dip in plot and action midway through, but the ending is so good it's definitely worth reading. Because of that, it really deserves 4.5 stars.
Once again, Bacigalupi writes a book that is hard, gritty and pulls no punches. I finished this book this morning and still don't know for sure what I think about it. I do love that with each book, you get a more detailed peek into this post-Accelerated age that he has created.
Grittier and more raw than the first book in the series. Not at all a sequel, but built in the same world as Ship Breakers following Tool the half man. Not a happy feel good book and may not be appropriate for younger YA readers because of that. But I thoroughly enjoyed it.
FANTASTIC sequel to an already fantastic book, even though the characters are different. TDC takes us from Shipbreaker's Gulf Coast to the Washington DC area, and the world-building and character development is top notch. If you loved Shipbreaker, you'll love this book; but even if you're simply OK with the first book, definitely give this sequel a go.
The characters really make this book but I would have loved a bit more explaination about what happened to cause the oceans to rise and everything to fall apart. I did enjoy the story, Bacigalupi didn't make the characters or setting nice but it wasn't impossible either. All the characters were well rounded and had good and bad qualities. Bacigalupi didn't seem to judge them.
The sequel to the amazing [b:Ship Breaker|7095831|Ship Breaker (Ship Breaker, #1)|Paolo Bacigalupi|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1327874074s/7095831.jpg|7352929], The Drowned Cities is a slouch. Lacking the innovation and character development of the first novel, it descends into a shallow moral-feminist cliche of child soldiers, aid-relief gone wrong, and a deus-ex-machina.
Tool is best character and I want to read about him as warlord/king of the Drowned Cities. Mahlia also v. satisfyingly torn between conscience and survival instinct.