Name: Dry Souls
ISBN: 9781933767123

Denise Getson

When Kira discovers her gift of bringing forth water in a world where the government controls it, she dreams of refilling the rivers, lakes, and streams, but the government doesn't want to lose the power it has over the population.

Dry Souls

ashley hopkins

Reading for the Wonderfully wicked read-a-thon

This was one of those random books I picked up at HPB not knowing anything about it. The cover intrigued, and when I read the back it did as well. How can anyone not live without water, and on rations? I'm sure all over the world some countries do. I just can't wrap my head around it though. I think another thing that stuck out to me about this particular "dystopian" is that in my mind it's totally possible (except for the girl bringing forth water. I think.) Our world could one day just be wiped clean. I mean what with the pollution, toxic chemicals, and things of that nature. What's not to say it could come to that? It could come to a devastation. This makes me think twice about how we treat our planet. Maybe, it won't in my life time, or in our grand kids life time, but it's a big possibility it could. Sorry, I'm going all green here.

The characters: I thought Kira was a really good main character. Yes, she had her flaws she was un-sure of herself, and sometimes let other people think for her, but I think throughout the story she grew. Her first step to growing was leaving behind all that she knew in the orphanage, and taking a giant leap of faith into the unknown, devastated world beyond her walls of comfort. Was it hard for her? It seemed like it, but she didn't let that stop her. She knew there was something else out there. When she met J.D it seemed things would start to look up. She would have to learn to trust him, a stranger. Sometimes trusting in someone you know is hard, but trusting someone you don't know is even harder. I think for her it worked at really well. They had each others back. Even though I think Kira shared a little to much about herself with J.D while he didn't fully share with her who he was. I think it worked. I grew to like Tamara, baby Shay, and Tuck. So some of the twists in the story had me a little sad. I hate the goverment when they think they can run whatever the hell they want. We did learn from them though that their might be others like Kira out there who have abilities. The downside to that is we never get any more detail on it so I'm hoping that will learn more with a second book.

The ending was definitely not one of those types where your thinking why they hell did it end this way. It left room for another one, or it could be just the one. (Hopefully there's a second though)

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