Life As We Knew It and The Dead and the Gone
Life as We Knew It and The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer
The September topic for the Book A Month Challenge was Change. In these boks, an asteroid hits the moon and knocks it much closer to earth, changing the world completely from that moment on. In Life as We Knew It, we meet Miranda, a fifteen year old girl who lives with her mother and younger brother in rural Pennsylvania. After the asteroid hits, her older brother returns from Cornell and they begin the process of just simply surviving. In The Dead and the Gone, we see the same events through the eyes of Alex, a seventeen year old who lives with his family in Manhattan. When the asteroid hits, his father is in Puerto Rico and his older brother is a Marine stationed in California. Alex's mother is called to her job as an operating room technician in Queens and Alex isn't sure they will see her again, so he is left in charge of his two young sisters, Braianne and Julie, who at 12, is the spoiled baby of the family.
I really enjoyed both of these books, though maybe I should not have been reading them during the whole financial crisis and bailout situation. Even so, they were heartbreaking, hopeful, and fantastic all at once. I cried a lot, but I'm an emotional person, and I cry pretty often. I highly recommend both these books, and hope she writes more in this series.
The September topic for the Book A Month Challenge was Change. In these boks, an asteroid hits the moon and knocks it much closer to earth, changing the world completely from that moment on. In Life as We Knew It, we meet Miranda, a fifteen year old girl who lives with her mother and younger brother in rural Pennsylvania. After the asteroid hits, her older brother returns from Cornell and they begin the process of just simply surviving. In The Dead and the Gone, we see the same events through the eyes of Alex, a seventeen year old who lives with his family in Manhattan. When the asteroid hits, his father is in Puerto Rico and his older brother is a Marine stationed in California. Alex's mother is called to her job as an operating room technician in Queens and Alex isn't sure they will see her again, so he is left in charge of his two young sisters, Braianne and Julie, who at 12, is the spoiled baby of the family.
I really enjoyed both of these books, though maybe I should not have been reading them during the whole financial crisis and bailout situation. Even so, they were heartbreaking, hopeful, and fantastic all at once. I cried a lot, but I'm an emotional person, and I cry pretty often. I highly recommend both these books, and hope she writes more in this series.
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