It did take me a bit of time to get into the book, especially Kelton’s family and him as a character. The story feels a little slow to begin with, you get a sense of what is happening with the tap-out and the ever increasing shortage of water but the build up is slow with us finding out more about Alyssa’s and Kelton’s families. Kelton’s family is seen as strange by the neighbourhod as they live off-grid and have fixed up their house as if waiting for a disaster to happen. The story is all told in the first person although it switches between Alyssa and, at first, Kelton who is her neighbour. The tap-out, as everyone is calling it, has already forced people to be careful with water, not using it on their lawns, for example, but when the water shortage leads to the taps running completely dry, and bottled water supplies fail, people start to panic. Teenager Alyssa and her brother Garrett live in southern California, which has been having problems with water supply for a while. Review: This was a brilliant story that took a little time to get into but was very exciting to read and leaves you feeling a little creeped out. *Free copy provided by publisher for review… Each of them will need to make impossible choices to survive. When her parents go missing, she and her younger brother must team up with an unlikely group in search of water. Suddenly, Alyssa’s quiet suburban street spirals into a warzone of desperation and violence. Life has become an endless list of don’t’s: don’t water the lawn, don’t take long showers, don’t panic.

The drought – or the tap-out, as everyone calls it – has been going on for a while.

Genre: Teen/young adult fiction, Thrillerĭescription: EVERYONE’S GOING TO REMEMBER WHERE THEY WERE WHEN THE TAPS DRY. Authors: Neal Shusterman, Jarrod Shusterman

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