This World We LIve In - Susan Beth Pfeffer

Genre: YA Fiction

Format: Hardcover / Library

Pages: 239

ISBN: 9780547248042

Rating: 3.5 Stars

Well, The Survivor Series has come to an end and as much as I continue to have nightmares I still really enjoyed reading it. This one was not as good as the first 2 but I still really liked it. The ending made my hear trace as to I just couldn't stand it any more and I just was racing to the end to find out more information. I did like the ending but my dear Alex....

This book is about both characters from the preovous 2 books and how they come together and of how they now live after the moon's devestation. I know things move very quickly but it is written in the words of Miranda so we have to take that at face value. I think it is a very wise and safe choice to write like that simply because not only is it easier but many questions can't be asked because this is what it is and i liked that because we are not there and if we were to find the books years later this is what we would know too.

I liked the series and I wish it did not end but as things do we must take it for that and I will continue to have horrible dreams but it still was a good and excited series and I thank you Susan Beth for bringing this to us!

The Dead and the Gone - Susan Beth Pfeffer

Genre: Young Adult Fiction

Format: Softcover / Library

ISBN: 9780547258553

Pages: 308

Rating: 3.5 stars

I loved both books in a strage way but this one bothered me more so than the first because it was a little too close to home. I liked how it wasn't as a journal as it was for Maranda's story but it was just Alex's account on everything. Of course for the first few days of reading this i had to put it down because of fear of continuing on reading it. I actually had a nightmare about a tidal wave coming at us. I had to get over my fear and tell myself that it was only a story and to read it as just that.

There are parts of the book that I simply hated. All those deaths of the people that they loved and having no idea if they were dead or alive or even to see people that you care so much about die. It was just sickening but it was a good story all the same. I am not sure if I am selling the book or making you run away from it but I really did think it was a good read. You continue Reading on in hopes that they get out of the City and to safety. You wish many things but you really want to know what happens at the end and that is what keeps you going and makes a good book. I can't wait to get to the third book, This World We Live In. I know that both of the main characters come together in the book and now they have to figure out how to survive yet again and move on with their lives. I wonder if this is the end of the trilogy????

Life as we Knew it - Susan Beth Pfeffer

Genre: YA Fiction
Pages: 337

Format: Softcover

ISBN: 9780152061548
Rating: 4/5

I gotta admit I really did enjoy this one. I didn't know it was a series until I got to the end and I was very excited. There were some flaws of course but in the end I rated it based on the entertainment factor. I read it in 1.5 days and it kept me awake and I wanted to continue reading it so...

It is based on a young teenage girl, Miranda, who writes in her journal and I think it is an easy way to write a book because there are many details that you can leave out. It begins with her living a normal life with her friends and family and there are talks and news about a meteor that is expected to hit the moon and when it does it literally pushes the moon closer to earth and all these catastrophic events unravel and it's like the world comes to an end. All these things happen, earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcano eruptions. Half of the known world is pretty much gone and it is in Miranda's journal that we learn this much but that it all we know which also makes the story good because it is pretty much all she knows too. There are no more news and how will she get any more information? It is definitely a good story and I am very much happy to get to the next installment< The Dead and the Gone, which is another teenage boy who lives in NYC and it is now his story of how these events effect him.

I gotta admit this is one of the few YA's that I truly enjoy and I wish I would have known how good it was before for I would have brought the box set! I wonder if there will be more after the 3?? Perhaps in the making...????