A review by cweichel
The Drowned Cities by Paolo Bacigalupi

4.0

I believe the word dystopian was created to describe the Ship Breaker series. I thought the first was dark, but this one is even more distressing. It grabbed me in the same way as the first one did, but terrified me more. Perhaps it is because I listened to this one as an audiobook and it's harder to skip the really scary bits when they seem to be wired right into your ear. I admit to pulling my earbuds out and skipping to the next set more than once. Paolo Bacigalupi is amazing. I'm looking forward to The Windup Girl and hope it isn't so dystopian.