This book made me thirsty.

So I’m a little bit mixed on this. I enjoyed the book while I read it, but I’m aware it is super flawed. The flaws didn’t make me want to stop reading it, but it does mean that thinking on it after a week later I can’t help but think it falls into a category I shall call “fast media” (like fast fashion but with media- short lived, forgettable, cheap?).
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What I liked: it sucked me in, the believable premise surrounding the drought, and its impact, the cut away action scenes from around the area, the lack of romance for a YA, it made me thirsty.
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What bugged me: the multiple and increasing POVs, the convenient removal of parents, the characters were cookie-cutter tropes, the lack of focus on the climate change that caused the drought, the ending that just seemed to make everything back to normal with the wave of a wand, some of the “plot twists” felt thrown in for good measure.
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In summary it’s just another end-of-the world YA novel, with much less death than I’m used to for them.