{"id":242,"date":"2011-08-01T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=242"},"modified":"2016-09-30T07:36:38","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T12:36:38","slug":"dry-souls-by-denise-getson-fiction-drought-forever-water-bringer-escape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=242","title":{"rendered":"Dry Souls, by Denise Getson (book review) – drought forever, water-bringer, escape"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The power to bring water to dry land – any desert-dweller<\/a> would want to have that gift, to create an oasis<\/a> of water for drinking and crops, right?<\/p>\n

But access to water<\/a> is a powerful need, as any farmer<\/a> or city manager will tell you, even today.<\/p>\n

Imagine water-access as a political tool<\/a>, as a crowd-management strategy<\/a>, and you’ll see why Kira’s gift of water in the drought-stricken, devastated environment<\/a> of our possible future is something that powerful people want so very badly to control.<\/p>\n

A stunning debut novel with memorable characters and pacing worthy of a motion picture (and I mean that in a good way). Have your local independent bookstore<\/a> order Dry Souls<\/i> for you, and be sure to tell your library<\/a> about it so they can get a copy, too.
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/b>: Dry Souls \/ Denise Getson. CBAY Books, 2011. [author’s Facebook page<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] [book trailer<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My Book Talk<\/b>: A flower? Kira wonders how a non-food plant survived the pollution and planetary drought that are killing humanity. In her desperation to keep the flower alive, Kira discovers that she can bring water to the ground with her fingertip!<\/p>\n

When Matron finds the flower and decides to send her away from the orphanage, Kira knows that it\u2019s time to run away, to head for the Dead Lakes Region where her mother had lived. Crossing toxic streams, encountering mutant wildlife, how long can Kira make it through this desolation created by worldwide chemical and biological warfare on her own?<\/p>\n

Meeting up with JD who\u2019s escaping from a boys\u2019 orphanage was a stroke of luck for both teens, as they pool their skills and resources to survive. When they have to steal algae-bars from remote outposts, Kira creates water in repayment. They hide by day, traveling at night, heading for a Biosphere where they can get more nutritionals and sunblock to counteract the pollutants in the food and air.<\/p>\n

But officials searching for Kira have reached the Biosphere first, and the friends must find a way to escape again before she\u2019s captured for her water-creating abilities. A blind woman reading Kira\u2019s palm recites an old proverb about water \u2013 and that\u2019s supposed to help them find their way to Slag?<\/p>\n

Can JD and Kira really survive a journey through the wasteland that the Devastation left behind?
\nWhat might they discover at the far-distant Dead Lakes to make it worth the journey?
\nIf the officials are tracking them, will they even make it to tomorrow?<\/p>\n

This debut novel is a brilliant dystopian future-view that begs to be made into a movie, that warns us of what our future could be, that urges us to have the vision to preserve our world. (194 pages) (One of 5,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>) Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The power to bring water to dry land – any desert-dweller would want to have that gift, to create an oasis of water for drinking and crops, right? But access to water is a powerful need, as any farmer or city manager will tell you, even today. Imagine water-access as a political tool, as a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,19,68,41],"tags":[90,22,4,142,20,5,37,16,79,44,43,49,12,15,21,35,33,3,6,8],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure","category-fiction","category-future","category-paranormal","tag-abandonment","tag-behavior","tag-belonging","tag-cancer","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-environment","tag-friendship","tag-growing-up","tag-memories","tag-refugees","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-teens","tag-travel","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7964,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/7964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}