fatherroderick 's review for:

Dry by Jarrod Shusterman, Neal Shusterman

5.0

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I experienced the scorching heat and drought in California when I visited friends there last year. This book starts with a catastrophic escalation of that situation: the entire area runs out of drinking water and scale of the disaster is too big to to handle for the country. We follow a couple of teenagers on their harrowing journey trying to get to safety. The biggest danger is not just the lack of water, but what people are willing to do to each other in order to survive. I couldn't put the book down, the action is fast paced and I liked the perpective shifts from one character to another. The audiobook enhances this by using various different readers to tell the story. Really enjoyed it!