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Life As We Knew It Susan Beth Pfeffer Emily Bauer Books

This dystopian novel isn't like the others. It's not about a tough-as-nails girl fighting against evil. It doesn't have a love triangle. There are no aliens. No zombies. No explosions. This book is about a girl and her family facing an apocalyptic world like you and I would. They are normal people with normal struggles, fears, and hopes. Their world is thrown upside down, and yet they still somehow manage to love each other and stay together. That isn't a spoiler. And what's interesting is that this book, above all the other post-apocalyptic novels I've read, was the one that made me the most scared something like this would happen! Written in diary style, you'll be thinking about this one long after you turn the last page.


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Life As We Knew It Susan Beth Pfeffer Emily Bauer Books Reviews

Are you prepared for the end of the world? Neither am I. Well, this book sure got me thinking a lot about stocking up on canned food and firewood, I can tell you that!
I am a huge fan of post apocalyptic books and this one did not disappoint. Though it isn’t a horrific zombies, mutants and beasts type apocalypse I enjoyed it quote a lot.
Though it is a work of fiction I felt that this could actually happen to us! The story is written as journal entries but it’s done in a way that immediately sucks you into the story that is easy to follow.
Some of the characters are not very likable but not to worry, they are not the main ones. I liked the main characters and thought their character development was good, especially Amanda. It has a strong family togetherness feel which I like to see in a YA book.
A simple but well-executed apocalypse story, Life As We Knew It doubles down on its worm's eye view of the end of the world. Miranda, the teenager whose journal entries make up this story of life in a small Pennsylvania town after an asteroid collides with the moon and moves it closer to Earth, goes through much of the book talking to no one but her family, and we get little detail about what's happening to most of the planet - her world has shrunk to her own four walls, and she barely knows what's happening to her neighbors, let alone other countries.

This choice to keep our characters realistically under-informed, rather than give in to the temptation to paint a broader picture for the reader with information someone in our narrator's position most likely wouldn't have, is typical of the book. Pfeffer is committed to telling a small, well-thought out and painstakingly detailed story of survival and loss, not making a big-budget thriller. The biggest threats to Miranda and her family aren't thousand-foot high tidal waves or marauding gangs of punks on motorcycles - they are starvation, freezing to death, the chimney getting backed up and smoke from the woodstove suffocating them in their sleep. And they're all the more frightening for it.

If you're looking for a YA story where our main character finds the hero within them and rises up to change the world for the better, this isn't it. Miranda spends most of the story scrambling to survive, getting weaker and weaker even as she finds an ability to persevere you wouldn't know she had from her pre-apocalypse self. It's intensely bleak, and (view spoiler) But if you'd like a tale about how to survival the impossible from an authentically teenage perspective, this book is worth your time.

Downgraded for being at times painfully repetitive - thematically appropriate, we experience the family's decline as slowly as they do, but the book does drag on. Miranda's voice also rings true, but the choice to stick with a recognizably often selfish and not necessarily insightful or central to the action teenage narrator can and does take away some of the depth of the journey.
This series is crazy! I love post apocalyptic books and this one was no exemption. It had a unique version of the apocalypse. Instead of zombies or aliens, the moon moved closer to the earth and wreaked havok upon the weather and sea. This series really evoked the panic, the desperation, the misery, the loss, and the fight to keep going. The emotions were so powerful and beautifully written. The characters were relatable and their situations kept you hooked. I would highly recommend this series.
Really enjoyed the first and last book in this 4-book series. Books #2 & #3 were very dark, depressing narratives. What made the first book so interesting was the teenage perspective on the impending disaster and its aftermath. I recommend it but you have to be in the right mood.
Every now and then a person needs a good disaster movie or book. I've yet to figure out why. I think it is watching how predictable those in charge cause even more problems and how the human spirit can rise to the occasion in spite of everything. By the way, this one doesn't have zombies. Imagine that!

I bought this book and its Audible companion quite a few years ago and just forgot about it. I don't know what brought it to mind now, but I am glad I found it again.

Not only is the story engaging from the very beginning, Emily Bauer's narration keeps it all alive. I love that this particular disaster stays rather calm in the crises as the mother tries to get her family prepared and she fiercely protects them.

The story starts with a family that is probably as familiar as our own, divorce included. It shows how love is still there even where the living together failed. And the children of this break up are not less well off, just different.

As the world becomes spread out because of the lack of working communication devices, the daughter keeps her diary going. It is through her communications with herself that we learn the story of life after the meteor hit the moon and causes tidal waves, earthquakes, volcanos and more. The global mess becomes personal as this teen tries to adjust from boys and kisses and proms to washing the laundry by hand and staving off hunger.

I highly recommend this book. There was a lot to learn here for all of us.
This dystopian novel isn't like the others. It's not about a tough-as-nails girl fighting against evil. It doesn't have a love triangle. There are no aliens. No zombies. No explosions. This book is about a girl and her family facing an apocalyptic world like you and I would. They are normal people with normal struggles, fears, and hopes. Their world is thrown upside down, and yet they still somehow manage to love each other and stay together. That isn't a spoiler. And what's interesting is that this book, above all the other post-apocalyptic novels I've read, was the one that made me the most scared something like this would happen! Written in diary style, you'll be thinking about this one long after you turn the last page.