Non-climatic apocalyptic story

By Delaney C.

When you are recommended a book you expect the greatest out of it. Everything you heard about it was everything you wanted in a book. Thrill, excitement and suspense. I was recommended "Life As We Knew It" by a friend. When I first started reading it, everything my recommender told me about was.. Not there. The book  provided those thrilling, excitement and suspenseful characteristics poorly. This dystopian / "end of the world" book was far too unrealistic and not very scientific. Dystopian and apocalyptic books are meant to make you actually feel like this could happen. The issue with this book was that it was very unrealistic and that everything was in the characters favor.

In my opinion, the main character, Miranda, is a spoiled brat and a whiny teenager. She whines because her mom will not give her anything to eat in the apocalypse. This book is just a whiny teenager in a dystopia. I can see that author tries to portray a teenager in an apocalyptic environment and how they'll survive it. She did an okay job on that. The author also portrays religious characters as crazy. How they starve the children because "god will provide it to them." I felt like the author poured out her religious and political view throughout the book. The mom made various of attacks towards G.W. Bush, and Fox news. The family blamed the government for every little thing. A plethora of very opinionated conversations happened throughout this book.

There wasn't any climatic issues throughout the book. No looting or robbery of goods in a world that has NO FOOD? This book has no suspense, no plot twists, no excitement. You basically read a book about a family trying to survive without food. Somehow, a bunch of volcanos and tsunamis occurred.. Then a virus broke out and everyone in Miranda's family got it, besides Miranda. Then they family someone survived an apocalyptic virus with no help… Also, Miranda's brother also gets to go to baseball camp in the midst of this… Very strange to add into a book the this where your lifestyle is suppose to change. This book was just very very boring. The book gets just a little bit climatic when the family runs out of food. They were told there was nothing to grow for crops and for food in general.. Then city hall announces that they'll hand out food every Monday. The scientific part of this book was very.. Not accurate and not well researched. Let's be real. An asteroid would not hit the moon out of orbit. Maybe a -0.1% chance that could even happen. If the author made up a planet and a moon etc etc, then yeah, it would make sense. But when you're trying to add in REAL scientific facts about Earth and space, make sure you do your research.

My overall opinion of this book is bland, boring, not climatic and downright not scientific. Reading this book made me realize that you can't just throw up words into a document and expect people not to notice your laziness. I personally would not recommend this book unless you're that bored or just interested in poor judgement of writing a story.