Dry

De: Neal Shusterman, Jarrod Shusterman

Narrado por: Neal Shusterman, Jarrod Shusterman, Jenni Barber, Noah Galvin, Michael Crouch, Kivlighan De Montebello

When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, one teen is forced to make life and death decisions for her family in this harrowing story of survival from New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman.

The drought—or the Tap-Out, as everyone calls it—has been going on for a while now. Everyone’s lives have become an endless list of don’ts: don’t water the lawn, don’t fill up your pool, don’t take long showers.

Until the taps run dry.

Suddenly, Alyssa’s quiet suburban street spirals into a warzone of desperation; neighbors and families turned against each other on the hunt for water. And when her parents don’t return and her life—and the life of her brother—is threatened, Alyssa has to make impossible choices if she’s going to survive.

Beautiful and terrifying laced with potential reality

I wept in my car. Character development slowly grips you, as you follow the lives wandering a reality that truly could not be too far off. And the decisions made to survive make perfect sense. What a lovely “read”. Currently stocking water bottles in my closet hahaha

11/10 READ

This is the best book I’ve ever read. The end had me sobbing in my kitchen. WHAT A ROLLERCOASTER. All 10 copies at my school and 5 at my public library were checked out and had a long hold list so I went to audible and I HAVE NO REGRETS. PLEASE BUY THIS BOOK ITS WORTH IT

Great realistic look at what could happen.

Clean water is going to be the issue not too many years from now. This captures the “what if” we dry out.

What a terrifically terrifying story!

I’ve loved Shustermans works all through high school, I tried reading Dry about a year ago and put it down because of the darker subject matter. It’s handled wonderfully of course but it just feels so real!

The performance of the readers is absolutely amazing, there are part where it feels like I’m there with them. That’s mainly the writing of course but it’s Neil Shusterman for gods sake of course it’s good. The right amount of humor at the right moments. Absolutely incredible.

Always surprised

I am always surprised when books written a few (or more) years ago end up sounding like it was just yesterday. This is one of those. This book pinpoints exactly what Speaker McCarthy’s districts have been struggling with and is finally getting a small bit of publicity.

“Throughout [his] tenure, this region of California has spent more time than any other part of the country in exceptional drought -- the US Drought Monitor's most severe category.” CNN

This is why I found Dry to be so interesting, young adult or not.