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A review by swinkel
Dry by Jarrod Shusterman, Neal Shusterman
4.0
I received an advance copy of Dry at Neal and Jarrod's signing at BookCon 2018. I LOVED the cover and the premise and couldn't wait to read it.
This book is very different from others I've read from Shusterman (Scythe, Thunderhead, Unwind). Instead of being fantasy-based or crazily dystopian, this is a very realistic view of what might happen if the water supply was cut off to a large population of people. In a panel at BookCon, Shusterman discussed how much research and discussion went into this book, so I did find this much more realistic than his other works.
To be honest, this book is kind of an eye opener. This is an event I could see taking place during my lifetime, so it was intriguing to read about the reactions and acts people commit in a time of desperation. The book will make you thirsty, though!
I think Shusterman covered so many different facets of the crisis: health implications, thought processes, how communities/neighborhoods would react, FEMA/government intervention, media portrayal, how to "bunker down" and create your own water supply, even the reactions of pets. It made for an interesting story and even the ending was pretty realistic although I think I was expecting something else. I'm not sure what, though. Maybe something much more bleak and shocking? But I think that's the point. Media covers crises and then moves on... just look at Puerto Rico. So I think they were going for realism rather than a shock factor or setting up for a sequel.
This book is very different from others I've read from Shusterman (Scythe, Thunderhead, Unwind). Instead of being fantasy-based or crazily dystopian, this is a very realistic view of what might happen if the water supply was cut off to a large population of people. In a panel at BookCon, Shusterman discussed how much research and discussion went into this book, so I did find this much more realistic than his other works.
To be honest, this book is kind of an eye opener. This is an event I could see taking place during my lifetime, so it was intriguing to read about the reactions and acts people commit in a time of desperation. The book will make you thirsty, though!
I think Shusterman covered so many different facets of the crisis: health implications, thought processes, how communities/neighborhoods would react, FEMA/government intervention, media portrayal, how to "bunker down" and create your own water supply, even the reactions of pets. It made for an interesting story and even the ending was pretty realistic although I think I was expecting something else. I'm not sure what, though. Maybe something much more bleak and shocking? But I think that's the point. Media covers crises and then moves on... just look at Puerto Rico. So I think they were going for realism rather than a shock factor or setting up for a sequel.