Paolo Bacigalupi
Hardcover | Pages: 437 pages Rating: 3.9 | 9888 Users | 1303 Reviews
Details Containing Books The Drowned Cities (Ship Breaker #2)
| Title | : | The Drowned Cities (Ship Breaker #2) |
| Author | : | Paolo Bacigalupi |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 437 pages |
| Published | : | May 1st 2012 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Science Fiction. Dystopia. Fiction. Apocalyptic. Post Apocalyptic. Fantasy. Teen |
Relation As Books The Drowned Cities (Ship Breaker #2)
Soldier boys emerged from the darkness. Guns gleamed dully. Bullet bandoliers and scars draped their bare chests. Ugly brands scored their faces. She knew why these soldier boys had come. She knew what they sought, and she knew, too, that if they found it, her best friend would surely die.In a dark future America where violence, terror, and grief touch everyone, young refugees Mahlia and Mouse have managed to leave behind the war-torn lands of the Drowned Cities by escaping into the jungle outskirts. But when they discover a wounded half-man--a bioengineered war beast named Tool--who is being hunted by a vengeful band of soldiers, their fragile existence quickly collapses. One is taken prisoner by merciless soldier boys, and the other is faced with an impossible decision: Risk everything to save a friend, or flee to a place where freedom might finally be possible.
This thrilling companion to Paolo Bacigalupi's highly acclaimed Ship Breaker is a haunting and powerful story of loyalty, survival, and heart-pounding adventure.
Point Books Conducive To The Drowned Cities (Ship Breaker #2)
| Original Title: | The Drowned Cities |
| ISBN: | 0316056243 (ISBN13: 9780316056243) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Ship Breaker #2 |
| Characters: | Tool, Mahlia, Mouse |
| Setting: | Washington, D.C. area(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Locus Award Nominee for Best Young Adult Book (2013), Cybils Award Nominee for Fantasy & Science Fiction (Young Adult) (2012) |
Rating Containing Books The Drowned Cities (Ship Breaker #2)
Ratings: 3.9 From 9888 Users | 1303 ReviewsCommentary Containing Books The Drowned Cities (Ship Breaker #2)
Posted at Shelf Inflicted Being unemployed can be nice. Its been a long time since Ive been able to read a book all the way through, barely stopping for meals or a drink. Since this was such a page-turner, I surely would have been late to work or missed an appointment.Though this is the sequel to Ship Breaker, there is a different set of characters. Mahlia and Mouse are two young refugees who fled their home to escape the terrible violence going on in the Drowned Cities. Now they are in the care4 1/2 starsMany of you (and Im guessing possibly even the author himself) will laugh me off this small stage when I confess that I find Paolo Bacigalupis novels to be incredibly hopeful. Seriously. Now, admittedly, this is an author who writes all about the end of the world as we know it and what weve done to bring ourselves here. The Drowned Cities is about the irrevocable loss of childhood innocence, the harsh realities of survival, and the grasping, selfish nature of humankind. His novels are
A finished copy was provided by the publisher for review.What does it mean when the one person you value most in the world is taken from you? You fight back of course. And thats what Mahlia does. Mahlia is so unbelievably stubborn. She just does what she wants and most times she gets in trouble when she makes the wrong decisions.Omg! Intense and heart pounding! I love this one. Half men are scary as heck! Can you imagine a human with coyote, dog and tiger genes running through his veins? Thats
It's like driving with the handbrake on.Paolo Bacigalupi is the Hugo and Nebula award winning author of one of my favourite all time books, The Windup Girl. It was for adults. It was brutal and dark and filled with the vision of a genius. The fact that he is choosing to waste his talent on writing for children upsets me. Drowned Cities is a dystopian novel, filled with teenage characters fighting a multi-generational patriotic war that can never be won. His characters are simply trying to
I've had plenty of time to mull over this book and my review, and yet...I still can't quite find words for it. There's just something about this novel, something about the way it just sucks you in, that it's hard to write about. Let's start out, then, with some things about it that are concrete.The futuristic, dystopian setting is fabulous. It's dark and gritty. It's incredibly believable in a way that is unnerving. As I wrote in my review of Ship Breaker, it "took those mediocre dystopian The
While reading Paolo Bacigalupi's The Drowned Cities, I found myself wondering whether a young adult SFF novel can discuss child soldiers.I've seen young adult authors tackle emotionally charged themes before. John Green considers suicide and its impact on the survivors in Looking for Alaska, while Sarah Dessen manages to discuss battery in Dreamland quite well.I'd normally expect SFF to be excellent at taking on big ideas, regardless of how emotionally charged they are. What SFF does tends to do
There is a small country in West Africa called Sierra Leone which is rich in diamonds. In 1991 a civil war erupted and left the small country in a blood bath. No home was safe. Families and friends meant nothing to many. Common practices for recruiting soldiers were to kidnap boys at the appropriate age, drug them until addicted, then keep them semi-drugged while they committed their first atrocities. They were then addicted to narcotics they could only acquire through soldiering and their
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