It was such an engrossing and engaging read, I couldn’t stop turning pages.

So I really didn’t know what to expect.Īnd well, it was one of the best rollercoaster rides I’ve ever experienced.

And the people I saw that had read this said that it was very good. On one hand, I was aware that everyone and their mother is obsessed with Shusterman’s Arc of a Scythe series. Going into this, I had middle-of-the-road expectations. Okay, wow, I don’t even know where to begin. Please be warned, and read carefully and cautiously. NOTE: The following review will feature mild spoilers. 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. Suddenly, Alyssa’s quiet suburban street spirals into a warzone of desperation neighbors and families turned against each other on the hunt for water. 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. The drought-or the Tap-Out, as everyone calls it-has been going on for a while now. 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. Up next, I’ll drop the cover and the synopsis to get started: Today, I am going to be sharing my thoughts on Dry by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman, a YA dystopian that came out back in November. Something that is going to make me explode if I don’t gush about immediately. Quite frankly, I like to focus more on ARC reviews, and since I’m gonna start doing wrap-ups this year, I have even less focus on reviewing novels that aren’t coming out during the year.īut there’s something about this book that I *really* wasn’t intending to review. So, I wasn’t actually planning on reviewing this backlist title. Hello there, speedsters! Welcome back to my blog!

Dry by neal and jarrod shusterman