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This World We Live In

By: Susan Beth Pfeffer
Narrated by: Emily Bauer
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It's been a year since a meteor collided with the moon, catastrophically altering the earth's climate. For Miranda Evans life as she knew it no longer exists. Her friends and neighbors are dead, the landscape is frozen, and food is increasingly scarce. 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.

©2010 Susan Beth Pfeffer (P)2010 Listening Library

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Wish I Had Stopped After the First Book...

I haven't read "The Dead and the Gone". I was going to read Alex's tale after this one but doubt I will now. I really enjoyed "Life as We Knew It" but could barely finish this book. I literally felt like I was listening to a difference series.

As another reviewer pointed out, the characters did things that were COMPLETELY out of character. And not in a learning way...like a character going down a difficult road to find their way back to who they really are - that would have been great. But no - these characters seemed like totally different people for no reason at all...like all of the sudden, this family seemed to care very little for each other.

And our heroine seems to have regressed in maturity about 4 years while gaining a huge helping of selfishness!! I REALLY wish I hadn't listened this one!

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This is not The Dead and the Gone.

It was hard for me to pay attention to This world we live in. It was not interesting, I sat and listened to this in several sittings. The people in the cast of this book were detailed but the surrounding were not. With the book of the The Dead and the Gone (first book) you could close your eyes and see and smell New York City and being from PA myself she didn't cover the layout of the town, the once population, connected cities, populations, even what was on the radio? A book isn't about the people in it but about where they are and when. I listen to a lot of doom and gloom books but the person reading the book was so happy. Yes, its supposed to be a teenage girl but not to the point where every world scream drama and happiness. The sadness of the words did not come across in the reading. The words were there but the voice was empty.

I'm not going to compare readers because that isn't fair but Susan if your reading this please use Robertson Dean in the future. I"m not going to buy the next book because I don't care about the people in them anymore. I am a person whom buys books based on great stores with the same people in them. But in this book, if all of them died I would have said, well, its really the best outcome for all of them.

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terrible

This book sucks and is clearly written by someone who really wants to push an agenda. The sexist themes from the first two books comes back full swing. It is mentions so many times that the woman are there to be baby machines its actually disgusting.
If you like books bringing back human rights and quality back to the 1940s than this is a good book for you.

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Young adult fiction for adults

If you could sum up This World We Live In in three words, what would they be?

Hopeful but . . .

What does Emily Bauer bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Inflections were amazing. Bauer really acted out the story and conveyed the humor as well as the horror.

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Disappointing end to a series I loved.

I LOVED the first two books in this series so much. That is why it was even more troubling that the third book was such a disappointment.

It felt rushed and contrived. Major plot points came out of nowhere and characters that we had grown very close to made decisions that made no sense based on how they were developed in the first two books. It felt like the author was doing a rush job to wrap up the series because she felt like she had to rather than because she had more quality story to tell

The performer was the same as the first book, and she was great. She just had a not too wonderful story to read.

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YA end of the world

A good story told thru the eyes of a 17 yr old girl. Very realistic, more subdued than one might expect. A bit too christiany towards the end but that's okay too.

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Slow

SPOILERS......So I really liked the first book the second book not as much but this one like others have said the main character miranda seems disconnected and off from the first book it took me a long time to get through this book and yes it seems like a lot has happened but not really and then I didn't like the alex character in this book that he and miranda didn't like eachother much then suddenly they're kissing and proclaiming love for eachother it just seemed like this book was just a filler in the series

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2 readers

i love the book and the people reading it, but what if you have the male actor from the book "the dead and the gone" read alexs and julies part?

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Not as good as the previous books.

It wasn't awful, but not as good as the other books. I found the narrator immature in her portrayal of Miranda. this is a girl who's a year into the apocalypse and she had already done a great deal of maturing.

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Love The Reader More Than the Plot Twists

As others have pointed out the characters don't feel like themselves. Do not like the introduction of alex and julie would rather have followed the core family from the first novel and had them develop more. Not reading the last book after reading disturbing reviews. Also I just don't like the male readers should have kept narrator Emily Bauer constant, love her!

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