The Dead and gone (book 2 of The Last Survivors series) is the story of seventeen year old Alex and how his world changes the day a meteor strikes the moon, shifting it closer to the earth.
Alex is forced to grow up fast as his parents are missing and he now has the responsibility to care for his two younger sisters. Raised in a deeply religious family the things Alex must do to survive in this new world are not only terrifying but break the readers heart.
This is not a continuation of Book 1 (Life As We Knew It), but rather a whole new story told from our Protagonist Alex's point of view and how he deals with the same devastating event book 1 was based on.
I really liked the book. The Author writes her characters so well that you feel as if you're there living through it all with them. It satisfyingly leads us to Book 3 (This World We Live In), where the stories of Miranda and Alex comes to a riveting conclusion.
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Sunday, March 27, 2011
Friday, March 25, 2011
Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
What happens when a meteor is on a collision course to the moon? Through the eyes of High School senior Miranda in Book 1 of The Last Survivors Series, we are drawn into a new world existence where a slight shift of the moons axis leads to devastating results.
What I love about this book is author Susan Beth Pfeffer doesn't try to take on the whole world and overwhelm her reader. Rather, she brings us into Miranda's small world of family, close friends, and neighbors allowing us to become intimate with the characters and their frightening new circumstances. I was so completely drawn in by the book that at one point I looked into my cupboards at my measly canned goods and toilet paper supply and thought to myself, "I need way more then this to survive!"
The end of the book left me hungry for more of the desperation to survive, the love of those we hold most dear, and ultimately the endurance of the human spirit. Thank goodness for the
Dystopian trilogy! We have, 'The Dead and the Gone' (Book 2) and 'This world We Live in' (Book 3) to immerse us back into Susan Beth Pfeffer's world once again.
What I love about this book is author Susan Beth Pfeffer doesn't try to take on the whole world and overwhelm her reader. Rather, she brings us into Miranda's small world of family, close friends, and neighbors allowing us to become intimate with the characters and their frightening new circumstances. I was so completely drawn in by the book that at one point I looked into my cupboards at my measly canned goods and toilet paper supply and thought to myself, "I need way more then this to survive!"
The end of the book left me hungry for more of the desperation to survive, the love of those we hold most dear, and ultimately the endurance of the human spirit. Thank goodness for the
Dystopian trilogy! We have, 'The Dead and the Gone' (Book 2) and 'This world We Live in' (Book 3) to immerse us back into Susan Beth Pfeffer's world once again.
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