Reading Hammock’s Rating:
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3 out of 5
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Category:
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Fiction
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Fiction Genre:
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SciFi
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Title:
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Life as We Knew
It
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Author:
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Susan Pfeffer
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Author Website:
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ISBN:
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0152058265
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ISBN-13:
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9780152058265
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Publication Date:
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October 2006
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Publisher:
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade
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Format:
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Hardcover |
Paperback | Digital | Audio
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Author’s Synopsis:
Miranda’s
disbelief turns to fear in a split second when a meteor knocks the moon closer
to the earth. How should her family prepare for the future when worldwide
tsunamis wipe out the coasts, earthquakes rock the continents, and volcanic ash
blocks out the sun? As summer turns to Arctic winter, Miranda, her two
brothers, and their mother retreat to the unexpected safe haven of
their sunroom, where they subsist on stockpiled food and limited water in the
warmth of a wood-burning stove.
Told in journal
entries, this is the heart-pounding story of Miranda’s struggle to hold on to
the most important resource of all—hope—in an increasingly desperate and
unfamiliar world.
My review:
I
did not find this book as engaging as the people who recommended it to me. First of all, there was not much action
throughout the story. Most of the pages
were wasted on the overriding question of food and starvation. The problem is that I quickly figured out that
the main character would not die of starvation because this novel is part of a
series. That simple fact reduced a great
deal of tension is plot. Not even the main
idea of the novel captured my attention because I could not relate to the main
character and her struggles. Because of
this, I did not have much emotional connection to the main character and her
family which made it painful to read on.
I would not recommend this book because I found it hard to connect to
the characters and feel tension in the plot line of this novel.
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