The Water Wars by Cameron Stracher

Title: The Water Wars

Author: Cameron Stracher

Pages: Hardcover 240 pages

Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire

Date Published: January 1^st 2011

Genre: Young Adult, Dystopia

My Rating: 

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Veraand her brother, Will, live in the shadow of the Great Panic, in a country thathas collapsed from environmental catastrophe. Water is hoarded by governments,rivers are dammed, and clouds are sucked from the sky. But then Vera befriendsKai, who seems to have limitless access to fresh water. When Kai suddenlydisappears, Vera and Will set off on a dangerous journey in search ofhim-pursued by pirates, a paramilitary group, and greedy corporations. Timelyand eerily familiar, acclaimed author Cameron Stracher makes a stunning YAdebut that’s impossible to forget. 




“Letus pray that the world which Cameron Stracher has invented in The Water Wars is testament solely tohis pure, wild, and brilliant imagination, and not his ability to see thefuture. I was parched just reading it.”-Laurie David, academy awardwinning producer of An InconvenientTruth, and author of The Downto Earth Guide to Global Warming

My Review

When I first readwhat this book was about I was eager to read it until I actually got to readingit then I had a lot of thoughts on it, some not so great. I will start of abouthow it made me feel… thirsty, really thirsty. Stracher made it possible for meto crave water, the way he explained the shortage of water and the way thecharacters were described, lips chapped and at the point of dehydration, I haveto say it was pretty intense, made me think about real life and how we mightnot be using water properly. That was probably the good part of the book, howthe author can make you feel a certain way and so extremely. Now I want to talkabout the so-so portion of the book. There was so much action, if you are intoaction filled book, this might be for you. In my opinion there was way too muchaction, so much that it was really improbable, which was disappointing becausethe topic of the lack of water was so realistic it was even easy to connectthen you get all this action that you get in corny movies in which you think toyourself, “how does that happen? Is that even possible? No one can have thatmuch luck. If it was real life they would have already been dead.” A lot ofaction 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 exactlymade for me but it was not so bad.

I recommend thisbook to anyone into action filled stories and into the dystopian genre.