Title: The Water Wars
Author: Cameron Stracher
Pages: Hardcover 240 pages
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Date Published: January 1st 2011
Genre: Young Adult, Dystopia
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Vera
and her brother, Will, live in the shadow of the Great Panic, in a country that
has collapsed from environmental catastrophe. Water is hoarded by governments,
rivers are dammed, and clouds are sucked from the sky. But then Vera befriends
Kai, who seems to have limitless access to fresh water. When Kai suddenly
disappears, Vera and Will set off on a dangerous journey in search of
him-pursued by pirates, a paramilitary group, and greedy corporations. Timely
and eerily familiar, acclaimed author Cameron Stracher makes a stunning YA
debut that's impossible to forget.
"Let
us pray that the world which Cameron Stracher has invented in The Water Wars is testament solely to
his pure, wild, and brilliant imagination, and not his ability to see the
future. I was parched just reading it."-Laurie David, academy award
winning producer of An Inconvenient
Truth, and author of The Down
to Earth Guide to Global Warming
My Review
When I first read
what this book was about I was eager to read it until I actually got to reading
it then I had a lot of thoughts on it, some not so great. I will start of about
how it made me feel… thirsty, really thirsty. Stracher made it possible for me
to crave water, the way he explained the shortage of water and the way the
characters were described, lips chapped and at the point of dehydration, I have
to say it was pretty intense, made me think about real life and how we might
not be using water properly. That was probably the good part of the book, how
the author can make you feel a certain way and so extremely. Now I want to talk
about the so-so portion of the book. There was so much action, if you are into
action filled book, this might be for you. In my opinion there was way too much
action, so much that it was really improbable, which was disappointing because
the topic of the lack of water was so realistic it was even easy to connect
then you get all this action that you get in corny movies in which you think to
yourself, “how does that happen? Is that even possible? No one can have that
much luck. If it was real life they would have already been dead.” A lot of
action in which I waited for something important to happen but nothing ever did,
it just went from action to more action and so on. This book was not exactly
made for me but it was not so bad.
I recommend this
book to anyone into action filled stories and into the dystopian genre.
