"Life As We Knew It" Book Review

“Life As We Knew It”

By Susan Beth Pfeffer (Good luck saying that one.)

Book Review

Reviewed by: Caroline

Title:  “Life As We Knew it”

Author: Susan Beth Pfeffer

What it’s about: (This comes from Good reads.)

           

Miranda’s disbelief turns to fear in a split second when a meteor knocks the moon closer to the earth. How should her family prepare for the future when worldwide tsunamis wipe out the coasts, earthquakes rock the continents, and volcanic ash blocks out the sun? As summer turns to Arctic winter, Miranda, her two brothers, and their mother retreat to the unexpected safe haven of their sunroom, where they subsist on stockpiled food and limited water in the warmth of a wood-burning stove.

Told in journal entries, this is the heart-pounding story of Miranda’s struggle to hold on to the most important resource of all--hope--in an increasingly desperate and unfamiliar world.

Overall Rating:  5/7- So Good!

What we thought about it:

  If you are a person that enjoys science fiction, zombie or survival stories this one’s for you. It doesn’t have zombies or flesh eating diseases, but when a meteor strikes the moon and causes the weather to go crazy- it kind of creates an, “Oh shit, the world is ending,” mood and book. The book is told from a diary, but she explains things with dialogue that will make the reader forget she’s cornily writing in a diary while the world is literally collapsing outside her window.

            The POV is first person, so you can get the sense of really feeling things coming from her- not through the writer that just explains it. (I love first person!!) They do some kind of crazy things, but nothing like eating other people or drinking their pee. Yes, I have read books like that- it wasn’t realistic. This book is. People do go crazy, but Miranda still keeps this good strong head through it.

       There isn’t much to talk about here, other than I really liked the main character- she wasn’t the stereotypical survival gal, she had some fear in her that somehow made her a real girl in a not-so-real world. The weather was crazy but believable and Pfeffer’s writing really was creative. She had a couple plot twist that I didn’t see coming- but not so many that you saw it coming. It was evenly spaced, which is good.  However, there isn’t a ton of romance and her boyfriend kind of pissed me off. I don’t know what it was, but he was just UGH. But other than that- This was a good book for the people who need a good shake up every once in a while. I would for sure tell someone to read this if they asked.

  

Other Quick Things:    

 

 There are four total books. The others are called:  “The Dead and Gone”, “The World We Live In” and the newest one which came out a month ago (There wasn’t supposed to be a fourth book- but she changed her mind.) It’s called “The Shade of the Moon.”

Xxx,

Caroline

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