A review by carolinethereader
The Walled City by Ryan Graudin

2.0

MEH I wasn't really a fan of this book which is a shame considering how much I loved Wolf by Wolf by the same author. The main disappointing thing was the characters. There are three main characters whose perspectives we get and the annoying thing was that I couldn't tell them apart. All their chapters kind of blurred together because they didn't stand apart individually. There were a few times where I had to flick back to the start of the chapter and double check who I was reading about. I didn't like the characters. They were boring and didn't really have anything remarkable about them They all felt forgettable.

The plot also left something to be desired. It was meant to be very fast paced and exciting but I found myself skim reading a lot of the time because nothing grabbed me. One of the characters is meant to be mysterious but we go more than half of the book without any explanation as to why he is on the run or anything! It would've been okay if his entire character wasn't dependent on that point.

The writing was okay but metaphors were overused to the max. Every sentence had one. Every description had ten. I'm just not a fan of writing like that. This book had an interesting concept (it's based on a real place in Hong Kong) but I just couldn't get into it.