Dry - Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
Published by Walker Books Ltd: London, 2018. There was a Christmas tree at work set up with mystery books underneath it. The wrapper for this one said something like 'Young adult dystopian climate change.' That about sums it up! When I think of Young Adult dystopias I usually think of a futuristic science-fiction world, either fallen apart (like The Hunger Games ) or still pretending to hold it all together (like Starters ). Dry is quite interesting in its difference; it takes place in a world that is - to all intents and purposes - our own. There is no futuristic science going on, no government conspiracies to deal with, no underground rebellion seeking to take down the president... its far more 'real.' And that adds to it's power. The only change from our reality is one that we feel could happen - an extreme drought has meant that the state of California is entirely out of water. This is the set-up, and the driving force of the plot: how do you survive, what do yo...