Dry by Neal ShustermanMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
While we wait for Neal Shusterman to bring us the third and final Arc of a Scythe novel, here he collaborates with Jarrod Shusterman on a more contemporary, and yet more terrifying, dystopian kind of novel. Twenty Minutes In The Future, the California drought - particularly in the more arid Southland - has grown so bad that now all the taps have run dry, and in a period of two weeks or so, pure apocalyptic chaos erupts in and around Los Angeles. Up to and including some nice gated communities of Orange County. Though the book's a bit brought down by its weird array of multi-POVs that switch at an erratic rate - and the characters feel strangely little fleshed-out, with the exception of Jacqui and Kelton; but Henry is particularly annoying a character whom I grew tired of very quickly - it's very effective in its exploration of a dangerously plausible disaster. Even more dangerously plausible when the weather in California, IRL, is more broken than ever.
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