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A review by desdemonarose
The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
adventurous
dark
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
I have listened to the audiobook for this book twice now. I was looking up the author's name on my audiobook list of purchases and accidently told it to download, so I figured I might as well listen to it again. Especially since I keep recommending it.
It was just as good the second time and I will continue to recommend it. It is a dark book. A future world where water is very scarce and natural disasters are ravishing what few habitable areas there are. The story follows a few characters who start out with separate lives, but all intertwine in Phoneix, AZ... a city that's holding on even though the odds seemed to be stacked against it. What happens in a very tough world when water rights that could trump any current assumption of rights is discovered?
Bacigalupi writes a well thought out and believable world for his story. His characters are also down to earth and very believable. They are complicated, it's not just about rooting for a cookie cutter protagonist, which is always my favorite sort of character building in a book.
It was just as good the second time and I will continue to recommend it. It is a dark book. A future world where water is very scarce and natural disasters are ravishing what few habitable areas there are. The story follows a few characters who start out with separate lives, but all intertwine in Phoneix, AZ... a city that's holding on even though the odds seemed to be stacked against it. What happens in a very tough world when water rights that could trump any current assumption of rights is discovered?
Bacigalupi writes a well thought out and believable world for his story. His characters are also down to earth and very believable. They are complicated, it's not just about rooting for a cookie cutter protagonist, which is always my favorite sort of character building in a book.