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A review by emilymahar
The Water Wars by Cameron Stracher
4.0
4/5 stars
When I bought this book, I wasn’t quite sure what it was going to be like. I hadn’t heard any reviews saying that it was a must-read for teens, and I hadn’t heard much hype about it either. The synopsis that I read sounded promising, so I bought it.
Stracher’s first young adult novel is a dystopian, that focused on the United States in the future. Here there are only republics, and war. The people are trying to stay alive, but have problems with dehidration, as the water supply has disappeared. The book is written from the point of view of a teenage girl named Vera, and has recently met a boy named Kai, who is rich and has a secret. He drinks water out in the open, and throughs it away like it is garbage, even though everyone else treasures every last drop.
I enjoyed this novel that had shed light on a future that could someday be real. It was different than many other dystopian novels, with minimal romance, and a fresh and new story revolving around something that everyone needs to survive. It reminded me a little bit of Matched by Ally Condie, with one government controlling groups of people, and making desicions for then. (In Matched, what they eat and who they marry; in The Water Wars the amount of water you are aloud to have, and what kind.)
The Water Wars was very fast-paced and a little short. I would have liked it to have had a longer ending, with maybe an epilouge taking place a year or so later. This was the part of the book that I thought was lacking. It seemed almost rushed, and left open for discussion. Maybe a second book?!
Overall, I enjoyed this book, and I would recommend it to younger teens, and maybe some more advanced middle grade readers!
When I bought this book, I wasn’t quite sure what it was going to be like. I hadn’t heard any reviews saying that it was a must-read for teens, and I hadn’t heard much hype about it either. The synopsis that I read sounded promising, so I bought it.
Stracher’s first young adult novel is a dystopian, that focused on the United States in the future. Here there are only republics, and war. The people are trying to stay alive, but have problems with dehidration, as the water supply has disappeared. The book is written from the point of view of a teenage girl named Vera, and has recently met a boy named Kai, who is rich and has a secret. He drinks water out in the open, and throughs it away like it is garbage, even though everyone else treasures every last drop.
I enjoyed this novel that had shed light on a future that could someday be real. It was different than many other dystopian novels, with minimal romance, and a fresh and new story revolving around something that everyone needs to survive. It reminded me a little bit of Matched by Ally Condie, with one government controlling groups of people, and making desicions for then. (In Matched, what they eat and who they marry; in The Water Wars the amount of water you are aloud to have, and what kind.)
The Water Wars was very fast-paced and a little short. I would have liked it to have had a longer ending, with maybe an epilouge taking place a year or so later. This was the part of the book that I thought was lacking. It seemed almost rushed, and left open for discussion. Maybe a second book?!
Overall, I enjoyed this book, and I would recommend it to younger teens, and maybe some more advanced middle grade readers!