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The Drowned Cities
by Paolo Bacigalupi
4.5 stars
Better than the first and a great standalone YA novel in its own right. The writing here had more of a hook than Bacigalupi's other novels that I've read. Mahlia is a really great, flawed character, and the world that she lives in is bleak and seems all too possible given the current political climate. I found the war imagery powerful, especially all the ways in which China in this novel is the America of today. It's particularly meaningful that the Drowned Cities are the D.C. area, since the situation that the citizens find themselves in is very similar to the situations of many people in developing countries around the world that America has a military presence in. The ideas here are a bit more mature than your typical YA novel.
Better than the first and a great standalone YA novel in its own right. The writing here had more of a hook than Bacigalupi's other novels that I've read. Mahlia is a really great, flawed character, and the world that she lives in is bleak and seems all too possible given the current political climate. I found the war imagery powerful, especially all the ways in which China in this novel is the America of today. It's particularly meaningful that the Drowned Cities are the D.C. area, since the situation that the citizens find themselves in is very similar to the situations of many people in developing countries around the world that America has a military presence in. The ideas here are a bit more mature than your typical YA novel.