Review by jaaay_reads - The Drowned Cities

The Drowned Cities by Paolo Bacigalupi

DID NOT FINISH: 53%

I gave up on this for a few reasons:

Lack of worldbuilding. Things were dropped and never really explained.
Just seemed rote and nothing new.
Some telling, and not showing, particularly for the characters, and not any for the world-building questions I had.
Some of the worldbuilding was not done in a way to make me suspend my disbelief.
- Half-men being human plus every animal makes no sense.
- What exactly happened?
  - From what I gathered, some climate disaster in the New Orleans area.
  - How widespread is it?
Every character seemed so rote and flat. Like, I've read characters like each of these before.
I was reading to read, not really for the story.
I could definitely see that there were themes of climate change and the effects of war. But, while very good themes, there wasn't enough to pull me in. I wanted characters that were interesting or an interesting world.