Lucy never felt as fleshed to me as Lynn did in Drink, but I did see Lucy grow and adapt as the story went on. Lucy is softer than Lynn and can’t handle an isolated, ruthless life simply because she’s never had to truly fend for herself.
And Lucy I wasn’t a huge fan of, though I could at least sympathize with her. She was the big gorilla in the room, though–she was definitely more memorable than Lucy. She seemed even harsher than before and I was a little put-off by her unwavering distrust and her obsession with her gun. In terms of characters, I wasn’t a huge fan of Lynn and Lucy in Dust. The ending, though, felt a bit rushed and too-good-to-be-true–although it does open the door for another book. I never knew if Lynn or Lucy would actually make it all the way to their final destination or if one or both of them would die on the way. I like that amount of uncertainty in books it’s so rare to actually fear for the protagonists and not be able to predict what comes next. I honestly wasn’t sure if McGinnis would be bold enough to kill off one of the girls in this book. Dust throws some pretty bad situations at Lynn and Lucy. The rather downer of an ending that Drink had was refreshing because it didn’t end on a happy note with everything resolved. I give props to Mindy McGinnis, though, for making this book realistically grim. But the trek from Ohio to California for Lynn and Lucy in this book was very tedious at some points. I normally like journey books, where the characters literally travel from point A to point B with lots of (crazy dangerous) events along the way. All but one of the new characters introduced in Dust are despicable in their own ways, and because this is a journey story, Lynn and Lucy don’t spend much time in any one place with any particular people. Also, Lynn and Lucy are the entire focus of Dust I missed the interaction of other nicer characters, like Stebbs, from Drink.
I think I liked Drink a bit better, simply because I liked the teenage Lynn more than the teenage Lucy. When comparing it to Mindy McGinnis’s first book, I’m not sure which one I prefer. This sequel is set ten years after the events of Not a Drop to Drink, and it follows Lynn and Lucy as they trek across the country in search of a safer place to live. It is the companion novel to Not a Drop to Drink, which I previously reviewed on the blog, and the lovely team at EpicReads selected me as a winner of an ARC of In a Handful of Dust. In a Handful of Dust was released just a little more than a week ago. Format: ARC, Katherine Tegen Books, HarperCollinsPublishers, 2014. Read my review of Book #1, Not a Drop to Drink, here. In a Handful of Dust by Mindy McGinnis, Book #2 in the Not a Drop to Drink series.
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