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Respectively second and third in the Last Survivors trilogy (series? It feels unfinished). The Dead and the Gone stands on its own, like Life as We Knew It, but This World We Live in is less standalone.
The Dead and the Gone - This covers the same apocalypse as in the previous book—a meteor (meteorite? I forget the difference) crashes into the moon, knocking it closer to earth, which causes all sorts of natural disasters. However, it's with a completely different set of characters in a completely different place, so the only thing the two have in common is that they cover a similar (or the same?) period of time, from the moon getting hit to approximately a year later.
Alex Morales must take care of his two younger sisters as New York is devastated and he cannot find his parents. There's more infrastructure in place in New York, but of course, things are still bad.
What I remember most about Life as We Knew It is the claustrophobic sense of the world getting smaller and smaller, until it's no bigger than a single room in your house. Here, the world stays a bit larger because it's set in New York City rather than a suburb, but there is the similar sense of worsening conditions, of food growing more and more important, and your circle of loved ones slowly shrinking.
Religion (Christianity) also has a much larger role in this book, or at least from what I can remember; Alex's entire family is very Catholic, and one of his sisters wants to be a nun. There's some examination of faith in the book, particularly with regard to the apocalypse and etc., but it didn't strike me as particularly nuanced or different.
And while I like having POC characters in the center, the gender stuff from book 1 continues in here, with the added downside of it looking like stereotypical macho Latino guy stuff.
This World We Live in - ( Spoilers for books 1 and 2 )
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Although I found the first book gripping, I feel the bits I disliked about it get worse in the next two without giving more story to recompense for it.
The Dead and the Gone - This covers the same apocalypse as in the previous book—a meteor (meteorite? I forget the difference) crashes into the moon, knocking it closer to earth, which causes all sorts of natural disasters. However, it's with a completely different set of characters in a completely different place, so the only thing the two have in common is that they cover a similar (or the same?) period of time, from the moon getting hit to approximately a year later.
Alex Morales must take care of his two younger sisters as New York is devastated and he cannot find his parents. There's more infrastructure in place in New York, but of course, things are still bad.
What I remember most about Life as We Knew It is the claustrophobic sense of the world getting smaller and smaller, until it's no bigger than a single room in your house. Here, the world stays a bit larger because it's set in New York City rather than a suburb, but there is the similar sense of worsening conditions, of food growing more and more important, and your circle of loved ones slowly shrinking.
Religion (Christianity) also has a much larger role in this book, or at least from what I can remember; Alex's entire family is very Catholic, and one of his sisters wants to be a nun. There's some examination of faith in the book, particularly with regard to the apocalypse and etc., but it didn't strike me as particularly nuanced or different.
And while I like having POC characters in the center, the gender stuff from book 1 continues in here, with the added downside of it looking like stereotypical macho Latino guy stuff.
This World We Live in - ( Spoilers for books 1 and 2 )
( Spoilers )
Although I found the first book gripping, I feel the bits I disliked about it get worse in the next two without giving more story to recompense for it.
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