2017
203 pgs.
YA (or upper middle grade) Dystopia
Finished 8/5/2018
Goodreads rating: 3.98 - 157 ratings
My rating: 2
Setting: southern California and Arizona 50 years from now
First line/s: "I huff out a breath of despair as the thin trickle of water dribbles out of the hand pump."
My comments: Very simplistically written, with lots of unedited errors, which is always frustrating. A very promising story, but just didn't follow through. The bad guys were very,l very bad and the good guys were very, very good. Blah. The plot, setting, basic ideas were super - but the writing left a lot -for me- to be desired.
Goodreads synopsis: Theresa Shaver, author of the best selling Stranded Series brings you her first stand-alone adventure novel set in a wrecked world.
All choices lead to death when the sun has Scorched the world.
Claudia has never seen rain or any water that hasn’t come from the old well behind her house. Now the well’s about played out and today they closed down the ration stations, for good. The gangs are circling to rob and loot the little they have. Her only choices are go north to the slave labour camps or stay and die by the gangs.
Her grandmother wants them to run south and follow an old map that will lead them to a secret valley with all the water they will ever need. She swears it’s there but how can she drag her nine year old sister and an eighty-year old woman out into the desert wasteland that surrounds them based on an old map?
Enjoy this clean, stand-alone adventure novel that moves at fast pace!
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