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A review by roseleaf24
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
3.0
Medal Winner 2011
I don't know if this was a not-my-thing issue, or if I just didn't have the time to put into it at the beginning when it needed more focused attention, or if I'm just missing something. The plot felt almost episodic in places, had mysteries that were revealed erratically, and wrapped up really quickly without giving me an idea of where it was going. The setting, though, was really well done -- for me a bit overdone since it seemed to push out plot for the first third of the book. The characters are spectacular. I particularly appreciated Nita, a "swank" with cringes most of us middle-class, first-world people can understand, enough snobbery that Nailer's annoyance was understandable, but a wonderful desire to do her part and be a part of her own rescue, no matter what that required.
I don't know if this was a not-my-thing issue, or if I just didn't have the time to put into it at the beginning when it needed more focused attention, or if I'm just missing something. The plot felt almost episodic in places, had mysteries that were revealed erratically, and wrapped up really quickly without giving me an idea of where it was going. The setting, though, was really well done -- for me a bit overdone since it seemed to push out plot for the first third of the book. The characters are spectacular. I particularly appreciated Nita, a "swank" with cringes most of us middle-class, first-world people can understand, enough snobbery that Nailer's annoyance was understandable, but a wonderful desire to do her part and be a part of her own rescue, no matter what that required.