Book #218 of 2020: Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer (Last Survivors #1) I already loved this novel when I first read it five years ago, and I’ve only grown more appreciative over time. The narrator is a realistically flawed teenager, alternately moody and intensely caring, and her slice-of-life diary entries document …
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Book #7 of 2016: The Shade of the Moon by Susan Beth Pfeffer (Last Survivors #4) This is the fourth (and last?) book in Pfeffer’s teens-making-poor-life-decisions-in-the-apocalypse series, and it is definitely the wildest one yet. The earlier books were tightly focused on individual families struggling to survive in a time of cataclysm; this one verges …
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Book #64 of 2015: This World We Live In by Susan Beth Pfeffer (Last Survivors #3) I don’t know how I feel about this one. I liked the first two books in this series about life after a climate-driven societal collapse, but basically every character in this third novel is a hormone-crazy teenager, and that …
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