But the fact that she literally just learned about sex and has an extremely negative image of men, and then turns around and has no problem with spooning with Eli in the dark in her bed when he has no shirt on makes zero sense to me. I can believe that a teenage girl who had basically zero knowledge about the opposite sex (and what little she did know was the very negative connotations her Mother gave her) can quickly become attracted to a teenage guy, and that she would quickly attach to him, especially considering he’s literally her only option for the time-being. I was also interested when Lucy and Eli came along, and it was sort of neat to watch Lynn soften up to them. It just felt meh most of the time. When Stebbs finally came along, my interest was piqued. Actually, I didn’t really hate any of it. In fact, this book made me feel very little at all, except angry for wasting my time.īut to be fair, I didn’t hate everything about Not A Drop to Drink. Except we’re only kind of told she feels the way, and we certainly never feel that she feels this way. Lynn has to cope with daily life alone, as well as the emotional impact of accidentally killing her mom. In fact, when Mother died in chapter five my reaction wasn’t sad so much as, “Finally, something happened!” But then the next several chapters dragged as well. If they had both died in the second chapter to make way for more interesting characters I would not have cared less. We spend four chapters eavesdropping on their day-to-day battle with purifying water (which is as boring as it sounds), and it’s quite frankly way too slow of a start for a YA novel of this length.

I cared nothing about Lynn, Mother (I hate that she was referred to as Mother in third person, but more on that later), or their lives.

The first four chapters were a COMPLETE snooze. The longer, WARNING: SPOILERS BELOW version of my review… And at the end of the book, I never felt there was a purpose to this entire story I just read. The short, non-spoilery version of my review: This book only engaged me occasionally. This is how I felt most of the time while reading Not a Drop to Drink… Not A Drop to Drink is set in a future where water is scarce, and the main character Lynn is left to defend her pond.

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