Life As We Knew It

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.