Ship Breaker
By- Paolo Bacigalupi
Rating- PT-T
Ship Breaker is an intense thrilling novel and is the sequel to The Drowned Cities. In this quick-paced book the main character, Nailer, lives on the coast of what we think could be the gulf of Mexico, and breaks into old steamer ships hunting for scavenge parts. Hence the title he is given, "ship breaker." He lives in a community that is susceptible to awful hurricanes called "city killers" that attack the shore and almost decimate the area. But when a city killer washes up a clipper ship he thinks his luck has changed. Perhaps the scavenge and items on the ship will wave him from the awful life he had been living. Nut what is on that ship changes his life much more than he expected. But of course I can't spoil the plot. Now this book was amazing and great but at the same time it made me really uncomfortable. A lot of the gruesome details quite simply completely grossed me out and the details about this brave new world Nailer lives in shocked and depressed me. In this time the world as we know it has been eradicated. The United States is gone and what replaces it is the dystopian community made up of small tribes living off of and selling what was left behind. It made me really upset and sad that that was what the U.S. came to, just a bloody, violent society. It is definitely a wonderful book but the reaction it inspires may not be too pleasant.
Rated PT-T for violence and gore.
