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Thirst
Thirst | Benjamin Warner
5 posts | 3 read | 4 to read
On a searing summer Friday, Eddie Chapman has been stuck for hours in a traffic jam. There are accidents along the highway, but ambulances and police are conspicuously absent. When he decides to abandon his car and run home, he sees that the trees along the edge of a stream have been burnt, and the water in the streambed is gone. Something is very wrong. When he arrives home, the power is out and there is no running water. The pipes everywhere, it seems, have gone dry. Eddie and his wife, Laura, find themselves thrust together with their neighbors while a sense of unease thickens in the stifling night air. Thirst takes place in the immediate aftermath of a mysterious disaster--the Chapmans and their neighbors suffer the effects of the heat, their thirst, and the terrifying realization that no one is coming to help. As violence rips through the community, Eddie and Laura are forced to recall secrets from their past and question their present humanity. In crisp and convincing prose, Ben Warner compels readers to do the same. What might you do to survive?
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Clare_Riley
Thirst | Benjamin Warner
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I‘ve just been to the library, and they were doing a Secret Santa! So this is what I‘ve chosen - I unwrapped it when I got home, it looks good, just my kind of book! Has anyone else read this?

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WellReadCatLady
Thirst | Benjamin Warner
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Two displays and a mini that work together. Thunderbolts is climate change fiction and frightening is horror books. The a Galileo mystery novel. I‘m pretty happy about it all and kept making coworkers look at it.

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rachaich
Thirst | Benjamin Warner
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Mehso-so

Book club read that I was hugely anticipating.
And I read it quickly. However I'm not feeling that enamoured by either the prose or the content. I felt the characters weren't that developed, or believable in their actions. I kept hoping they'd go and fi d water!
We were also a little unkeen on the gender stereotyping. It did lead to goid discussion about civilised behavior in an uncivilised society...

Michelle_mck I got your letter Rach and sent a reply today 6y
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Kalynrebecca
Thirst | Benjamin Warner
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⭐️⭐️meh. It had its moments but was just kind of boring

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BibliophileArtichoke
Thirst | Benjamin Warner
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Mehso-so

Quick, suspenseful, and fun (yet dark). A bit untidy, but it definitely made me feel as though I was there. Turned a lot of pages and drank a lot of water! Loved being sucked into this, but it was a bit muddy for my taste overall.