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Not a Drop to Drink by Mindy McGinnis

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Brief synopsis (no spoilers)
Lynn lives with her mom in an old house in rural Ohio. It gets very cold there, but she and her mom have worked out a solid survival system: kill anyone that approaches their pond. There's a desperate water shortage, so it's the most precious commodity.

Category
Fiction, maybe intended for YA

Why I chose this bookRated highly on the library website

My personal opinion (the review)
The story premise was fun, the execution was decent. I liked that human connections drew Lynn out of her very reserved nature. The language was bearable, but the violence got to be a bit much. The ending- was it justice or revenge, or does it even matter which? Not the best book I've read this year, but not the worst either. I probably won't read it again, but it was okay once. I won't let my YA readers (my kids) read it any time soon. My wife would hate it, for the death.

WarningsLanguage: Not horrible, but definitely present. No f-words that I recall
Violence: Frequent, including threats of and references to sexual abuse
"Adult" situations: Referenced, but none explicit
Death: Frequent, and of major characters

Movie rating equivalentR for violence

Protagonist descriptionLynn has lived a strange life, separated by hostility from the rest of humanity, but she's surprisingly normal.

Point of view of storyThird, focused on Lynn

Book lengthMedium

Story flowGreat

Grammar and spelling issuesVery few, none very distracting

Character connection (no spoilers)
I'd like to know a bit more about Stebbs and his back story

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