Dec. 25th, 2018

The Blurb On The Back:

Everyone’s going to remember where they were when the taps ran dry.


The drought – or the tap-out, as everyone calls it – has been going on for a while. Life has become an endless list of don’ts: don’t water the lawn, don’t take long showers, don’t panic. But now there’s no water left at all.

Suddenly, Alyssa’s quiet suburban street spirals into a warzone of desperation and violence. When her parents go missing, she and her younger brother must team up with an unlikely group in search of water. Each of them will need to make impossible choices to survive.


ExpandThe Review (Cut For Spoilers): )

The Verdict:

Neal and Jarrod Shusterman’s near-future YA apocalyptic novel is a timely story that draws on a real-life, on-going water crisis and features some interesting characters (notably Jacqui, the hard-boiled borderline psychopath and Henry, a self-absorbed opportunist) and challenging situations but the plot strains at times while also being oddly cliché and I found the deus ex machina ending disappointing.

DRY was released in the United Kingdom on 4th October 2018. Thanks to Walker Books for the review copy of this book.

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