Stephanie S. (skywriter319) - , reviewed on 12/29/2010 + 784 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 1

Man. I really wanted to like this one. Its dystopian, first of all, and its not too much a stretch of the imagination to picture our future being like this. And for the first few chapters all was still well. The world-building is solidly vividI could clearly visualize the parched, struggling land that Vera lives in when I closed my eyesand the characters, while not standouts, were at least not irritating. Veras not a particularly convincing narrator, but I was willing to overlook narratorial blandness in favor of the attention-holding world-building.

But when Vera and Will set off to rescue Kai is when the book completely lost my interest and sympathies. THE WATER WARS seems like an overly ambitious melding of too many genresdystopian, Western, action. One minute theyre plodding along in a lonely, lonely world where it feels like theyre the only people around; the next, theyve been captured by water pirates? And the next, a big explosion (quite literally) sweeps them awaybut right into the hands of other evil dudes?? Im sorry, but thats where I stopped reading. I like the premise well enough, but it turns out that Stracher never fully convinces me to invest in these characters outcomes, which was apparent after they began encountering extravagant deus ex machinas.

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