The Drowned Cities
- 434
- Pages
- about 8 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Drowned Cities” is a grim, unflinching young adult novel about war, soldiers and survival in a post-apocalyptic America. It returns to the world of “Ship Breaker”, and some readers find it more compelling than that first book, especially for a character carried over from it. Others find it dull, with little happening even in the middle. Older teenagers and adults who do not mind a bleak setting are its natural audience.
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About the book
The Drowned Cities is a 2012 young adult novel by Paolo Bacigalupi set in a post-apocalyptic future. The book is a sequel to Ship Breaker.
Reading order · Ship Breaker Trilogy
Full order & progress →- Ship BreakerStart here
7.77.7 / 10 - The Drowned CitiesThis book
7.87.8 / 10 - Tool of War
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.8 across 56 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 28% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.8 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.8 | 11 | 20% |
| Hardcover | 7.7 | 45 | 80% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Drowned Cities?
It has 434 pages — shorter than 52% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
In this book
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