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megbellinger 's review for:
Dry
by Jarrod Shusterman, Neal Shusterman
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Reading this book and then thinking about the president’s order to release reservoir water in CA for no reason makes me insane. Unrelatedly, I will be stocking up on water from Costco this weekend.
This book had an uphill climb to convince me of its merits, because I tend to subscribe (perhaps in Pollyanna fashion) to the idea that people will generally come together in a crisis and not immediately devolve the way the preppers expect, but a water crisis of the scale described in the book does seem like as good a reason as any for society to temporarily collapse. The characters all had lots of stuff that was hard and in some cases unlikeable (especially profit maximizing robot Henry) but overall I felt like this was a classic Shusterman joint that left me with plenty to think about.Also, did I conflate something in my head or did we run into dalton fighting for the BMW keys and then never get any resolution on that?
This book had an uphill climb to convince me of its merits, because I tend to subscribe (perhaps in Pollyanna fashion) to the idea that people will generally come together in a crisis and not immediately devolve the way the preppers expect, but a water crisis of the scale described in the book does seem like as good a reason as any for society to temporarily collapse. The characters all had lots of stuff that was hard and in some cases unlikeable (especially profit maximizing robot Henry) but overall I felt like this was a classic Shusterman joint that left me with plenty to think about.