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rickwren 's review for:
The Drowned Cities
by Paolo Bacigalupi
The Drowned Cities is the darkest, most starkly troubling young adult book I remember reading. I'm not really sure how it is Young Adult except that it has a teenager as main character.
Bacigalupi explores themes of community, prejudice, and greed quite thoroughly. For that I recommend it. But the narrative skips and jumps quite a bit in pacing and mood giving me the impression that the author wrote chunks of the book at different times and then patched it together with little editorial work.
That said, the ideas and characters worked for me, but this is the weakest of the three books I've read from Paolo.
Bacigalupi explores themes of community, prejudice, and greed quite thoroughly. For that I recommend it. But the narrative skips and jumps quite a bit in pacing and mood giving me the impression that the author wrote chunks of the book at different times and then patched it together with little editorial work.
That said, the ideas and characters worked for me, but this is the weakest of the three books I've read from Paolo.