Dry book review
When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, one teen is forced to make life and death decisions for her family in this harrowing story of survival,
The drought—or the Tap-Out, as everyone calls it—has been going on for a while now. Everyone’s lives have become an endless list of don’ts: don’t water the lawn, don’t fill up your pool, don’t take long showers.
Until the taps run dry.
Suddenly, Alyssa’s quiet suburban street spirals into a warzone of desperation; neighbors and families turned ragainst each other on the hunt for water. And when her parents don’t return and her life—and the life of her brother—is threatened, Alyssa has to make impossible choices if she’s going to survive.
Right, once again it’s time time to review a book by one of my favourite Dystopian author -Neal Shusterman. This book was so well paced from start to finish (not to mention the amount of twist and turns there are )with both the complicated interpersonal relationships as people with different world views colliding as well as phenomenal ,vivid world building.I instantly fell in love with how complicated relationships where displayed and how instrumental it was in the plot without being to overbearing.
The drought—or the Tap-Out, as everyone calls it—has been going on for a while now. Everyone’s lives have become an endless list of don’ts: don’t water the lawn, don’t fill up your pool, don’t take long showers.
Until the taps run dry.
Suddenly, Alyssa’s quiet suburban street spirals into a warzone of desperation; neighbors and families turned ragainst each other on the hunt for water. And when her parents don’t return and her life—and the life of her brother—is threatened, Alyssa has to make impossible choices if she’s going to survive.
-Dry blurb
Right, once again it’s time time to review a book by one of my favourite Dystopian author -Neal Shusterman. This book was so well paced from start to finish (not to mention the amount of twist and turns there are )with both the complicated interpersonal relationships as people with different world views colliding as well as phenomenal ,vivid world building.I instantly fell in love with how complicated relationships where displayed and how instrumental it was in the plot without being to overbearing.
Personally,I also really loved the world building and how believable it is.Some people say it’s not realistic enough -maybe that was true when the book was released-but now more than ever in light of more environmental issues the way it snowballs into outright apocalypse seems more accurate than ever before.I also think that it acts as a more and more relevant warning/social observation.
Finally I really liked how there were apocalypse stereotype characters without it feeling over done or unrealistic.They still had deep personality’s and back stories that didn’t make it feel like they where plucked from nowhere.From the “normies” Alyssa and Garett,the lone wolf Jaquci to the survival freak Kenton none of them feel to unrealistic.
Overall it was an enjoyable read
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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