People in Southern California are used to the drought and water restrictions. Cars aren't washed, lawns aren't watered, and limits are placed on filling swimming pools. It's just a way of life. Then one day the taps go dry.
Southern California is cut off from water provided by the Colorado River. The day it happens is known as Tap Out. Alyssa's family's reaction is to head out to the local Costco to stock up on bottled water. It doesn't take long to realize everyone has the same idea. According to news reports, desalination plants will be up and running in a few days. That doesn't work out as planned either.
Next door Kelton and his parents have it under control. Kelton's dad is a prepper and has been preparing for the inevitable for years. They have a safe room fully supplied with everything they need to survive and booby traps surround the house. They are also preparing to leave for their bug-out in the nearby mountains.
Alyssa's parents head off to the beach to get promised water from the desalination machines, but they don't return. Kelton offers to help Alyssa locate her missing parents. That's when everything falls apart. Neighbors are frantically looting and Kelton's father accidentally shoots Kelton's brother when he mistakes him for one of the crazy neighbors. Now Alyssa, Garrett, and Kelton's lives depend on making it to the bug-out on their own.
DRY is a chilling look at the future written by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman. Taking the very real water shortage to crisis level makes for a frightening novel that has the potential of becoming more than fiction.
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