The Drowned Cities (Hardcover) by Paolo Bacigalupi

from -sunny-

First of all, I wish i'd read this sooner after reading Ship Breaker, because in the back of my mind I kept looking for connections between the two stories as I read...which only annoyed me, because I can't remember what I ate for dinner two, sometimes even one, day ago, so of course my recollect...

from Bookswithbite

After falling in love with the first book, I couldn't wait to read the next book. It gave me just what I wanted and more! So, the reader begins right back in the world of the Drowned Cities. Cities once above water not drowned in it. I thought I be reading about the characters from the first book...

from bibleblaster

This is young adult dystopian fiction of great quality. It is unsparing in its grim depiction of "if this goes on," and offers some compelling ruminations on the things that humans will do when we seemingly have no other choice. This is one we may want to hand out to the Presidential candidates w...

from stephxsu

This is very clearly one of those "it's not you, it's me" situations. Bacigalupi is a great writer. He can come up with a unique dystopian premise, lay it out in all its entirety, and still proceed to shock readers with the depth of emotions he can conjure up for the characters and their predicam...

from mamzel

Wow! Mr. Bacigalupi has taken many of the horrible things in today's world and spun them into one story. A companion book to [Ship Breaker], the world is in the grips of global warming, with rising sea level flooding our coastal cities. Anarchy has broken out and many different factions are fight...