thelibraryofminds 's review for:

The Drowned Cities by Paolo Bacigalupi
3.0

I wanted to like this more than I did, but I could never really make a connection to hte characters. I felt a bit distant, and it felt similar in some ways to The Windup Girl. Bacigalupi has some interesting world building, and he's obviously thought his world through, but there was just something missing for me. Plus, I thought the pacing was a little weird in this one.
For whatever reason, it was just not as enjoyable as I thought it would be.