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Dry by Jarrod Shusterman, Neal Shusterman

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luxxltyd's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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dariusmortee's review

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dark emotional funny reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.75

Neal (and Jarrod) did it again! Something about his books just hits different. He does something really interesting.

I love how this book is about the survival of a dystopian disaster. How it’s about how it changes people and society and how we sometimes take so incredibly much for granted.

The end did feel a bit rushed. I would have liked some more. It feels a little off how quickly everything is solved in the end. Plus I needed more characters to die. Maybe all of them.

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rose34's review against another edition

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dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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raptorq's review

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informative tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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a_cera_t0ps's review

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Dry is about as cute and heartwarming as it is tough.

In alternating perspectives, our cast grows and shrinks.
The characters are well written. The book shows many of the different arguments/reasoning/stories without drowning out plot A or disrupting the collective pace of the story. The characters feel like real people, with real connections. While there is a crush and romantic connection, it never once cuts into the action. It only presents itself as a motive: a catalyst for an even and consistent amount of the story. The ending is realistic while still having a satisfying conclusion.

The Shusterman authors worked to gether to create a compelling dystopian story much in the same way George Orwell worked time and time to do. They wrote the book with a message. However, instead of creating an atmosphere of hopelessness, the Shustermans help to build a future, to show the fall out of if and when disaster passes. They don't water down (ha) the message, the importance, or the level of disaster, but they leave the reader with an enjoyable story. It's believable, even if extreme in nature.

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bisexualchaos's review

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adventurous hopeful fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Beautiful book- I’ve loved Neal Shushterman since the Unwind dystology. Another dystopian book that can hit close to home regarding climate change and the state of our world. I literally gasped out loud at one point.

I was convinced everyone was going to die at the end, but alas, this is a YA book. Somewhat of a twist at the end how they were saved! The ending was just a tad cheesy, and I would’ve personally preferred just a little bit more sadness or death for realism, but it was still wonderful!

Would recommend to anyone who likes dystopia like Hunger Games, and if you like this book, you’d LOVE the Unwind dystology!

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zoejjj's review

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dark emotional hopeful reflective tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

This is the most infuriating end to a book I’ve read in recent history. I almost quit at the end of the climax because I was SO MAD. Anyway. I would not actually recommend this book. The preachiness of climate change and virtue signaling and everything that goes along with that made it very, very hard to get into the book at the beginning. The plot itself was a 3.5, if it had ended the way I thought it should, probably would’ve been a 4 even with the preachiness! Now it’s a 2

There are things good about this book. I liked that the kids had to face decisions that made them “monsters” and how they dealt with that. I like the way stories interconnected. I like that the drought brought out the actual core of people making the good even better, pushing them to make the right choice.

every single thing that could possibly go wrong went wrong. Which was fine. Shooting Brady, the bug out being ransacked, that’s all fine and good. It made sense. I don’t mind everything going wrong because I was tenseeee. I get mad when Alyssa was literally about to SHOOT HER BROTHER and magically!! A miracle happens and the plane drops water on them. No!! This whole book was about how no one was safe, everyone suffered and 9 in 10 people wouldn’t get water. Commit to the incredibly dark and real this book has been and make her shoot him. You want to preach about serious climate change is? Then why did Every. Single. Person. Live. Kelton could’ve died at least. Jackie living is a joke. Everyone’s parents living? Basil living? I don’t think so. The twist that Henry was actually 13?! Hated it. 13yr/o’s are so dumb, they’re not going to be able to manipulate people like that. Kelton and Alyssa admitting that they mean something to each other and that in “30 yrs they’ll dance with each other” is the most annoying thing ever. I wouldn’t’ve minded the conversation if it ended with “can I have a kiss to hold me over?” or “can I kiss you before then” because the author just admitted he’s scared to commit to to killing of his mc’s bc this is a kids book, but he’s not going to let his mc’s be kids and have a SINGLE KISS?! The more I think about it the more I dislike this book.

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