Not a Drop to Drink, (Hardcover)

from Emma_Manolis

The world featured in Not a Drop to Drink is a world that quite honestly terrifies me. Reading the description alone made me want to put the book down, back away slowly and find something more optimistic and cheerful to read. However, my curiosity overruled my fear and I found myself reading Not ...

from BookishThings

Not a Drop to Drink is a dystopian, but it's not like others in it's genre. Instead of trying to make the world different, it's very much about survival.Mindy McGinnis creates characters that make you want things to be better for them. They don't know anything besides death and trying to protect ...

from mcelhra

I thought this book was a great offering in the wide, wide world of YA dystopian fiction. One thing that made it unique in terms of the dystopian YA books that I've read is that I could easily imagine a water shortage like this happening at some point in the future. Maybe even in the not-so-dista...

from Jadedog13

Lynn was nine the first time she killed to protect the pond, the sweet smell of water luring the man to be picked off like the barn swallows that dared to swoop in for a drink. - first sentence I couldn't wait to see how this one would end. It is the story of a young girl raised in the wilderness...

from tess_schoolmarm

This is billed as a YA dystopian novel. I definitely don't think it's YA, although the vocabulary might suggest it. It's a complicated story of survival following some event in which the U.S. (maybe the rest of the world?) is without water, electricity, and raging with cholera. There are deadly s...