Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
This is my third Bacigalupi novel and so far they all follow the same pattern. Male protagonist lives in a not too distant future where everything has gone to shit (lack of water, genetic modifications, climate change) and works at some unusual post-apocalyptic job (water knife, whatever the dude from windup girl did, ship breaker) and falls in love with a mysterious girl from a different social class (poor desert girl, wind up girl, swank) and must decide if he should leave the world he knows out of love of this girl.
And the title is the job of one of the main characters.
There, now you don’t have to read any of them.
Just kidding, I loved “The Water Knife.”
Erin Parke 