The second book, The Dead and the Gone, is actually the one I read first, about a year ago, and covers the same time period but this time from Alex’s point of view, a teenager living in New York City. School comes to a screeching halt, and Miranda’s life, once full of friends and school and sports is now mostly doing laundry by hand, spending the days in one room of her house with her mother and siblings trying to keep warm, and wondering if she’ll ever go to college, have a real boyfriend, get a job, etc.
The heat and electricity shuts off pretty quickly, coming on every few weeks for a few minutes or maybe, if they’re lucky, for a few hours. They do okay even as food run short because of her mom’s quick thinking early on when they purchase hundreds of dollars worth of non-perishable foods. Her family lives in a small town in rural Pennsylvania. The first book, Life As We Knew It, is written in diary form by teen-aged Miranda. It’s all very cheerful as you can imagine. Enough closer that the tides are thrown completely off, the seasons change dramatically, and earthquakes, hurricanes, tidal waves, and volcanoes ravage many parts of the world. The very short synopsis is that the moon is hit by a very large asteroid and is knocked closer to the earth.
This series would fall into that category, but it’s different because, unlike the three books I just mentioned, you see the recognizable world fall apart, rather than just the aftermath and rebuilt society. I have mentioned before that I really love dystopian books (ones like The Hunger Games or Uglies or The Giver where something has completely changed the face of the world (war, disease, etc) and an alternate kind of society has sprung up). And you won’t forget it either – the characters and the storyline are so real and so memorable, without being over the top. 8 of 10: This YA trilogy, Life As We Knew It, is about the world being significantly altered by an asteroid hitting the moon is a little bit like watching a train wreck it’s horrific, but you can’t look away.
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