Lunar Month

I could not have chosen a better time to read this book... or a worse. It's a great time because of the cliche I was able to use for book number 30. On the other hand... seeing as last weekend was supposed to be the beginning of the end of the world and we've had nothing but monsoon-like weather for over a week... it was a very bad time to read this book.
I have been reading a lot of very scary, disturbing dystopians lately. But none has been as scary as this one. Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer is the most realistic book I have read recently. Maybe the idea of a meteor being able to knock the moon off it's axis is ridiculous but... maybe it isn't... who knows what could happen in this world. And of course the tsunami's, storms, volcano's and other natural disasters that occurred are not very far from all the crazy stuff that has been going on in the world today. When I started the book, it seemed very young and immature, then by the end of the second chapter I was hysterically crying. For a while it was a bit boring and slow moving but there is only so much you can write with this kind of a story, and even while it was slow, it was still completely devastating and far too easy to place yourself into the plot. As I reached Winter, I realized that the author started the book out sounding so young on purpose, she wanted to show how much Miranda was forced to grow due to the circumstances.
Despite the fact that it was slow moving, it was a very exceptional book. I'm not sure my emotions can handle reading the next book in the series right now, so I think I will try another for now and come back to it later.

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