Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer

Author: Susan Beth Pfeffer

Reading level: Young Adult

Publisher: Graphia

Rated 10/10

  Miranda is a normal 16-year-old girl whose main concerns in life are schoolwork, swim meets and whether or not she will be asked to the prom. But Miranda's world is literally ripped apart when an asteroid hits the moon, shifts it from its orbit and throws the earth into chaos. Millions die due to tsunamis and earthquakes. Millions more perish because of an early, devastatingly cold winter, brought about by ash thrown into the atmosphere by hundreds of volcanic eruptions. The story, told through a series of entries in Miranda's journal, chronicles the heroine's and her family's efforts to survive in a world where staying warm and having enough to eat and drink becomes the day-to-day priority. Bauer skillfully captures Miranda's adolescent angst with all its emotional highs and lows. By keeping the narration completely in Miranda's voice, using only slight differences in inflection to denote other characters, Bauer manages to convey the sense of Miranda herself reading her most intimate thoughts to listeners. It is a fine performance that only enhances Pfeffer's thoughtful, heart-wrenching novel.

MY REVIEW
I really liked this book. It's very well written and it scared the crap out of me to think this prolly could happen.Miranda is a 16 year old girl that lives a very normal teenage life til one night a meteor hits the moon and knocks it out of it's orbit bringing it closer to earth. Then the world changes very quickly. There are tsunamis and earthquakes right afterward. School is eventually cancelled for that year and things start to get worse. Gas goes up and Miranda is very lucky her mom bought a hell lot of stuff when she did right after cuz the stores all close down. Volcanos go off all over the world making the skies gray and it harder to breathe outside and blocking sunlight, meaning the world can not grow anymore produce. In the summer it's extremely hot and in the winter is is extremely cold. There's no electrity or gas anymore. People left and right are dying. I suggest you read this only if you don't become too scared or worried easily.