This World We Live In

Susan Beth Pfeffer

Apr 2010 · Last Survivors Book 3 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Emily Bauer

About this audiobook

The heart-wrenching companion to the bestselling novels Life As We Knew It and The Dead & The Gone.

It’s been a year since a meteor collided with the moon, catastrophically altering the earth’s climate. Miranda and her two brothers spend their days scavenging for food and household items, while their mother stays at home and desperately tries to hold on to the ordinary activities of their previous life. But they all know that nothing is truly normal in this surreal new world they live in.
           
The struggle to survive intensifies when Miranda’s father and stepmother arrive with a baby and three strangers in tow. One of the newcomers is Alex Morales, and as Miranda’s complicated feelings for him turn to love, his plans for his future thwart their relationship. Then a devastating tornado hits the town of Howell, and Miranda makes a decision that will change their lives forever.

Ratings and reviews

I found myself disliking this installment Alex and Miranda's relationship didn't make much sense to me, and it didn't seem much like actual love. While I loved the author's writing style and the previous books, this one just seemed like a loss of ideas (like many other dystopian book series) and just decided to kill off a few characters. While Horton's, death made sense, as he had not been eating for awhile, it Julia and Charlies death just seemed like they were there to cover the Lack of plot.

About the author

Susan Beth Pfeffer’s first two apocalyptic novels, Life As We Knew It and The Dead & The Gone, received numerous awards and were widely praised by reviewers as action-packed, thrilling, and utterly terrifying. Both novels are also available on audio from Listening Library. In This World We Live In, the main characters from each of the previous audiobooks—Miranda Evans and Alex Morales—come together in a world where courage and faith blend seamlessly in the struggle to survive mass devastation.