This World We Live In by Susan Beth Pfeffer; young adult; 256 pages
I had really enjoyed the first two books in this series. The premise is that an asteroid has knocked the moon closer to earth, causing global climate changes, tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions. The first book is the diary of a 16-year-old girl as she and her family try to survive, while the second book follows a different family in New York City. This book brings the two groups together, and an expected romance kicks up between the narrators of the two books (though this book is, like the first, narrated solely by Miranda in her diary). I felt like I should have liked this a lot more than it did, but while the first two books focused on survival, this book seemed more concerned with gooey-eyed romance, which just didn't seem in keeping with the bleakness of the rest of the series. Also, the little sister character that mildly annoyed me in the second book became, if possible, more annoying here (she herself is not annoying, but her perpetual helplessness, and the fact the everyone bends over backwards to accommodate her--because she's just such a good person-- gets really old, really fast).
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