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The Walled City
by Ryan Graudin
I was excited to read this book because of the amazing things I had heard from my friends. It did not disappoint. All of the characters were multi-dimensional, and so well flushed out in their own right, I would have read a book about just one of them! When all three characters were introduced, I'll admit I was scared a love-triangle would occur. I don't always mind love-triangles, and am definitely a lover of romance, but heavy romance and drama would have detracted from the story, and simply would have been awkward between the three characters.
The story carried a lot of dark tones throughout the plotline, but the ending provided some very realistic hope, but also didn't pretend that everything was okay and back to how things used to be. The book acknowledged that sometimes people revert, sometimes they go back to the darkness, and all we can do is keep offering help and love and support.
All in all, well deserving of my five stars. And it gave me something new and cool to research! The actual Walled Cities of China and Hong Kong.
The story carried a lot of dark tones throughout the plotline, but the ending provided some very realistic hope, but also didn't pretend that everything was okay and back to how things used to be. The book acknowledged that sometimes people revert, sometimes they go back to the darkness, and all we can do is keep offering help and love and support.
All in all, well deserving of my five stars. And it gave me something new and cool to research! The actual Walled Cities of China and Hong Kong.