The Walled City
Author: Ryan Graudin
Publication Date: November 6th 2014
Publisher: Orion
~A copy was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review~
730. That's how many days I've been trapped.
18. That's how many days I have left to find a way out.
DAI, trying to escape a haunting past, traffics drugs for the most ruthless kingpin in the Walled City. But in order to find the key to his freedom, he needs help from someone with the power to be invisible....
JIN hides under the radar, afraid the wild street gangs will discover her biggest secret: Jin passes as a boy to stay safe. Still, every chance she gets, she searches for her lost sister....
MEI YEE has been trapped in a brothel for the past two years, dreaming of getting out while watching the girls who try fail one by one. She's about to give up, when one day she sees an unexpected face at her window.....
In this innovative and adrenaline-fueled novel, they all come together in a desperate attempt to escape a lawless labyrinth before the clock runs out.
The Walled City is not a bad story. It has an important
story to tell. Keep that in mind throughout this, but I don't think that story
was highlighted as much as it should have been and was dragged down by other
perspectives and a lot of inner monologue we didn't really need. For the first
half, from each perspective, we basically had the same things happening, the
same thoughts going on a loop that didn't seem to end up going anywhere. Like I
said, it isn't a bad story, it has the foundations there to be that important
story, but instead it only touched upon it.
