The Water Knife

“‘Like there's something in our DNA,' she murmured, ‘that makes us into monsters.'”

This book killed me. I feel like Paolo Bacigalupi took my heart in his hand and stabbed it about a dozen times. And it made me think. It makes you really step back and cringe at the human race as a whole, and as dire as that sounds, it's really an incredible feeling.

The characters were awesome. Really, I loved and hated them all with the same amount of passion. I especially adored Angel and Lucy, and they seemed real. Maria pissed me off, to be honest. Especially when she shot you-know-who. But anyways.

The plot was perfect. It was political- yay! And the politics surrounding the water were actually understandable, even to a simple citizen such as myself. It contained a mystery, and I can tell you the exact moment when I realized where the water rights were.

I loved it, if you couldn't somehow tell from my gushing review. Paolo Bacigalupi always makes me think. Always makes me think about how screwed up as a race we were. And I just love that.

“‘Yeah. And we're all the same monsters,' Angel said.”