The Water Wars is a futuristic novel where the world has almost run out of water. At least, that's what the people are told. Vera meets Kai, a mysterious boy who seems to have a knack for finding water. When he disappears, Vera and her brother Will go on an adventure to rescue him.
I have to admit, it took me a while to get into this book. It's not that it wasn't interesting, but it moved a little slow for me. However, once Vera and Will are off to their rescue mission, the story became very exciting.
While the novel had a good storyline, the thing that I liked most about it was that it made me think about our world today and how we are depleting our resources. Right now we are concerned about oil, but it seems very possible that water could be next. Stracher tells a good story while also making the reader visualize a world that we may not be so far from. I continued to think about the book long after I put it down.
