The Dead and the Gone (The Last Survivors #2) by Susan Beth Pfeffer AudioBook

Book Review: The Dead & The Gone (The Last Survivors #2) by Susan Beth Pfeffer

Billed as a companion novel to “Life as We Knew It,” Susan Beth Pfeffer’s book, “The Dead & The Gone” is the second in The Last Survivors series.The novel follows the same events as the first (an asteroid hits the moon, moving it closer to Earth’s orbit and causing catastrophic climate change) but this time it is told from the point of view of Alex Morales, a seventeen year old Puerto Rican, who must lead his family when both his mother and father are lost during the event.

For me, it was interesting to see the same events from a different perspective.  Where Miranda and her family dealt with the situation on a farm in rural Pennsylvania, Alex and his young sisters must navigate the Upper West side of Manhattan.  Although the situations and catastrophes are the same, the fresh take this novel gave was interesting.  Miranda and her family were quite leery of the church, while Alex and his sisters lean on their faith to survive.

I had hoped that this book would have a more exciting plot – but I found that it was very similar to the original.  Although, this was a completely new perspective and setting, the problems were the same.  This book tends to focus more on the characters in the book, and their relationships with others, where Live As We Knew It was more about the actual events.

While I am not super in love with this trilogy, the books are oddly addictive.  Whenever I start one, I have trouble putting it down, even if I feel that the book is very repetitive (especially after reading the first one.) I have picked up the third one where the two sets of characters from each novel come together, so it will be interesting to see how the story progresses.

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