Life As We Knew It
Ratings50
Average rating3.9
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Ratings50
Average rating3.9
Miranda lives a normal life in a normal family. When an asteroid is scheduled to hit the moon, nobody realized that it would change the world forever. Together with her family, Miranda must struggle to survive and hope for help.
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3 primary booksLast Survivors is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2006 with contributions by Susan Beth Pfeffer.
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I remember liking this book, but I read it and [Into the Forest:] back to back and I've totally munged the plots together. I think they have quite a few similarities.
Miranda is going about her normal day-to-day. Homework, school, life. There is buzz in the air about an asteroid colliding with the moon. Shouldn't be a big deal other than a pretty light show. Loads of asteroids have crashed into the moon; that's why it has craters.
Except it is a big deal. The asteroid knocks the moon off-kilter. This changes everything.
I read this book in one sitting. It was so scary because it's something that actually could happen. At least it seemed so in the book. Excellent read.
This book is what started my love for “soft dystopian” literature. Upon re-read now in my adult life, it still gave me chills thinking of living in this world where a meteor hits our moon and pushing it closer to earth causing cataclysmic events. Now in 2021 we get our own natural disasters - free of a closer moon - and it's made this book all the more sadder.
Great read for our younger generation to further understand how we are at whim with our earth.
I enjoyed this book mostly because the author did an incredible job of capturing what truly would happen under these circumstances. No crazy wars, or far-fetched tales. Just the story of survival and family. I really enjoyed this book. The rest of the series wasn't as good but this first novel is worth the read.
