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A review by hijinx_abound
The Walled City by Ryan Graudin
4.0
I fell in love with Ryan Graudin’s writing style in Wolf by Wolf. Her worlds tend to be bleak and dangerous. A walled city full of criminals, gangs,prostitutes, and street gangs. This cast lets you know right away that, not only is there little hope, there is no safety and no way out. And yet this is a story about family, forgiveness, and never giving up.
There were a lot of things I loved in this book:
-Sisters
- connecting to people on different levels i.e. not everyone is a love interest
-there were no easy rescues or simple “outs”.
-building family when yours is not healthy
-not everyone made it out
This book went really fast for me. Having 3 narrators helped me keep POV’s straight. Finding out that this story came from history was fascinating. I had no idea that such a place existed. I have to mention the epilogue. A lot better f times epilogues go the direction of happily ever after. This epilogue fit the story. Healing takes time and that is reflected.
There were a lot of things I loved in this book:
-Sisters
- connecting to people on different levels i.e. not everyone is a love interest
-there were no easy rescues or simple “outs”.
-building family when yours is not healthy
-not everyone made it out
This book went really fast for me. Having 3 narrators helped me keep POV’s straight. Finding out that this story came from history was fascinating. I had no idea that such a place existed. I have to mention the epilogue. A lot better f times epilogues go the direction of happily ever after. This epilogue fit the story. Healing takes time and that is reflected.