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The Walled City
by Ryan Graudin
Dai has 18 days left to atone for his role in his brother's death. Jin keeps searching for her sister, who was sold into slavery by their father, all the while hoping no one ever finds out she's a girl in a boy's disguise. Mei Yee is stuck in a brothel, wishing she could escape but knowing the consequences of failure. They all live in Hak Nam, the Walled City, home to criminals and drug lords, prostitutes and vagrant boys. It's crowded, dirty, and dangerous, and all three are only one wrong move away from death at any moment. They'll end up working together to try to take down Longmai, the head of the Brotherhood, the unofficial power in Hak Nam.
While this book reads like a dystopian novel, and you might swear that it is, the location is based on a real place, the Kowloon Walled City outside of Hong Kong, torn down in 1987. This is a realistic fiction with a slow build culminating in quick action. While the first two-thirds of the book might be hard to get through, the last third has the pay-off.
While this book reads like a dystopian novel, and you might swear that it is, the location is based on a real place, the Kowloon Walled City outside of Hong Kong, torn down in 1987. This is a realistic fiction with a slow build culminating in quick action. While the first two-thirds of the book might be hard to get through, the last third has the pay-off.