this world we live in by susan beth pfeffer

The one year mark brings dramatic changes to life at home as their family grows in members – both older, familiar faces and some new ones are thrown into the mix. Miranda narrates the tale once again, relating day to day events through her diary. This World We Live In shifts the timeline of the trilogy forward as it completes the story of both prior protagonists. In the dead and the gone, these same catastrophic events are observed through the eyes of a young man named Alex, and his struggle to protect his younger sisters, search for his missing parents, and stay alive in a drowning New York City. In the months following the moon impact, Miranda and her family have undergone a dramatic change in lifestyle in their desperate struggle to survive in the Pennsylvania countryside, as detailed in Life As We Knew It.

In turn, this caused temperatures plummet, crops to fail, and famine and outbreaks of disease became commonplace. The increased gravitational pull meant tidal waves, extreme weather, and volcanic eruptions on Earth, leading to a global atmosphere of ash that prevents any sunlight from penetrating. It has been a full year since the moon was struck by an asteroid, pushing its orbit closer to the Earth and unleashing a string of natural disasters. Needless to say, I anxiously awaited this third and final volume in the series with bated breath.

Its companion novel, the dead and the gone was a close second. Life As We Knew It is one of my favorite novels, and was far and away the best book I had read in 2008. Why did I read this book: This is one of my all-time favorite series’ period. Stand alone or series: Book 3 in the “Last Survivors” (formerly referred to as the “Moon Crush”) trilogy

Then a devastating tornado hits the town of Howell, and Miranda makes a decision that will change their lives forever.

One of the newcomers is Alex Morales, and as Miranda’s complicated feelings for him turn to love, his plans for his future thwart their relationship. The struggle to survive intensifies when Miranda’s father and stepmother arrive with a baby and three strangers in tow. Her friends and neighbors are dead, the landscape is frozen, and food is increasingly scarce. For Miranda Evans, life as she knew it no longer exists. It’s been a year since a meteor collided with the moon, catastrophically altering the earth’s climate. Genre: Post-Apocalypse, Dystopia, Young Adult

This world we live in by susan beth pfeffer