saralynnburnett 's review for:

The Drowned Cities by Paolo Bacigalupi

3.0

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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.