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This was good, but it wasn't what I was expecting, and not what I was in the mood for. Somehow I completely forgot that it is YA; I thought "Miranda and her family" of the blurb was a grown woman and her family... I'm kind of disappointed to realize this is a 16 year old's diary.
Things I liked:
Very engaging
Easy to read
Definitely pulled me in (I read this while on vacation at the beach, and often was surprised to set it down and realize we had ple ...more
This was good, but it wasn't what I was expecting, and not what I was in the mood for. Somehow I completely forgot that it is YA; I thought "Miranda and her family" of the blurb was a grown woman and her family... I'm kind of disappointed to realize this is a 16 year old's diary.
Things I liked:
Very engaging
Easy to read
Definitely pulled me in (I read this while on vacation at the beach, and often was surprised to set it down and realize we had ple ...more
What a pleasant surprise! I honestly was not expecting much out of this book and have put it off for quite a while. From the beginning, I loved every word.
My husband and I have been watching Preppers on National Geographic as a guilty pleasure- this book made me want to pay more attention! The events in this book are so plausible and realistic that it's a bit scary.
The characters are written well and as a reader I grew attached to them quickly.
I highly recommend this novel (and the next two in ...more
My husband and I have been watching Preppers on National Geographic as a guilty pleasure- this book made me want to pay more attention! The events in this book are so plausible and realistic that it's a bit scary.
The characters are written well and as a reader I grew attached to them quickly.
I highly recommend this novel (and the next two in ...more
Mar 18, 2010
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This is the "Book of the Month" for The bookclub I have joined a few years back, and the difference this time, is I actually pick up and read this one due to the attraction of a "post-apocalyptic" genre I enjoy so much. This is a story of a family, who has to endure a life change as a comet crashed onto the moon, which, in horror, brought it closer to Earth. This is Miranda's diary of her day to day account, along with her family. Her hardship with them, her frustrations, the changes she, her fa
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They really should label YA novels more clearly.
Yes, the book takes the form of a 16 year old's diary, but sometimes it's hard to tell. By the time I got to the gratuitous figure skating, it was too late to turn back.
So I powered through, was slightly bothered by the run-of-the-mill misogyny, was bored, thought a bit about the end-of-the-world disaster/hoarding porn aspects, declared the book not particularly good, and went to bed.
I woke up an hour later and it hit me that (view spoiler) ...more
Yes, the book takes the form of a 16 year old's diary, but sometimes it's hard to tell. By the time I got to the gratuitous figure skating, it was too late to turn back.
So I powered through, was slightly bothered by the run-of-the-mill misogyny, was bored, thought a bit about the end-of-the-world disaster/hoarding porn aspects, declared the book not particularly good, and went to bed.
I woke up an hour later and it hit me that (view spoiler) ...more
Ouch...never thought I will give this book a 5-star rating, but I guess I was too amazed with the story.. Fast paced, even though it's been told through a diary of Miranda, the main character, and setting only around the house and small town in Pennsylvania. The craziest thing is this story feels terrifyingly real for me. I could feel the starvation, the panic attack, the hopeless grimy world, the sad feeling that there will be no future, the unpredictable and all the waiting days - without elec
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Ugh.
I thought this was going to be sort of teen escapist antsy speculative fiction (along the lines of Twilight but with an asteroid instead of vampires?). Instead it was as upsetting as Octavia Butler or Suzanne Collins, with *none* of those authors' redeeming intellectual and political awesomess. And I spent my Saturday night reading this?
It was, however, emotionally powerful enough (or should I say manipulative enough) that I'll read the sequels at some point. Or at least Google the major plo ...more
I thought this was going to be sort of teen escapist antsy speculative fiction (along the lines of Twilight but with an asteroid instead of vampires?). Instead it was as upsetting as Octavia Butler or Suzanne Collins, with *none* of those authors' redeeming intellectual and political awesomess. And I spent my Saturday night reading this?
It was, however, emotionally powerful enough (or should I say manipulative enough) that I'll read the sequels at some point. Or at least Google the major plo ...more
I'm a sucker for post-apocalyptic worlds, and this novel -- told in the form of a teenager's journal as her world "as she knew it" unravels -- hit every single one of my buttons. Hope and terror evenly mixed, and a great set of characters who have tiny everyday problems and successes as well as the huge end-of-the-world ones. Suffers a bit from an awfully abrupt ending, but the other 300 pages make up for the sharp ending.
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Apr 06, 2011
Deedee
marked it as to-read
Lexile 770L
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14.0
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14.0
Nov 04, 2009
Kathy Jo
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