The Walled City

Name: The Walled City
Brand: Hachette Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Author: Ryan Graudin
ISBN: 9781478955832

Author: Ryan Graudin

Narrator: Eugene Kim, Kim Mai Guest, Janet Song

Unabridged: 10 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers

Published: 11/04/2014

Categories: Children's Fiction, Action & Adventure Stories, Regional Stories, Children's Social Themes, Children's Love & Romance

Synopsis

There are three rules in the Walled City: Run fast. Trust no one. Always carry your knife. Right now, my life depends completely on the first. Run, run, run.
Jin, Mei Yee, and Dai all live in the Walled City, a lawless labyrinth run by crime lords and overrun by street gangs. Teens there traffic drugs or work in brothels--or, like Jin, hide under the radar. But when Dai offers Jin a chance to find her lost sister, Mei Yee, she begins a breathtaking race against the clock to escape the Walled City itself.

About Ryan Graudin

Ryan Graudin is the award-winning author of several young adult novels, including the Carnegie Medal–nominated Wolf By Wolf duology, Invictus, and The Walled City. She lives in Charleston, South Carolina, with her husband and two daughters. You can find her online at ryangraudin.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Hailey on October 02, 2017

This was super cool, very dark and gritty. I was surprised by the brutality of it for YA but I think it was well done. Definitely an intense story.......more

Goodreads review by Emily May on September 25, 2014

DNF at 50% - I just can't do it. It's true that I don't often give more than one star to books I couldn't finish, but I can't argue with the fact that there's a lot to praise here. If I wasn't so sold on the concept, I would not have pushed myself past so many unbearably slow, purple passages. The Wal......more

Goodreads review by Regan on June 09, 2023

4.5 really great!......more

Goodreads review by Giselle on October 15, 2014

"There are three rules in the Walled City: Run fast. Trust no one. Always carry your knife." I admit, this is all I read of the blurb before I dived into this book in line at BEA, so what I expected was some kind of dystopian. And in a way, it is a dystopian-like setting inside the city itself,......more

Goodreads review by Wendy Darling on August 06, 2016

2.5 stars Mild spoilers. Great premise with a fascinating setting that feels dystopian, but is actually based on a former real walled city in Hong Kong. But the writing is uneven and occasionally tries too hard to be descriptive without being convincing (there are hands moving like hummingbirds and......more