Life As We Knew It

Part of how I know I'm really enjoying a book is how much I annoy other people by talking about it. I don't think a day went by while I was listening to this one that I didn't make a reference to it or try to get my sister to agree to read it.

This book's attraction (part of it) is how realistic it seems. It's not hard to get worked up while reading about it and start to think, “THIS COULD HAPPEN TO US.” This has not been the case with the dystopias I have read in the past. But this...this is terrifying. I want to start building my stockpile of canned goods and batteries now.

I really did not care too much for the narrative style of the book. It's told as if it's the journal of a 16-year-old girl and I found Miranda's voice to be a bit too young and also just pretty annoying. I also felt a little cheated when I got to the end and no one had died. I had my money on Matt from the beginning.