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Living through what we are currently living through with an epidemic, failing of infrastructure, climate change, etc. made for a very realistic portrayal of a world in turmoil and a family struggling to survive.

I read reviews that GR members wrote before we were hit with a pandemic across the world, massive illness and deaths, infrastructure breakdowns, climate change, political unrest, racial and gender equality protests, tsunamis, wildfires, melting glaciers, a failing leadership, economy challenges, and I wonder if their reviews would change based on what we all are going through right now.

This book is based on a teenaged girls daily life journaling during the time when an asteroid first hit the moon, resulting in all kinds of catastrophic injuries to the earth and its people. I know people are currently keeping journals from their lives over this past pandemic year and really, would it be so much different from this book depending on where you lived and what your resources were and how smart/creative you might be in your quest to survive?

After turning the last page and going to bed, I could not sleep at all ruminating of many of my experiences and their family’s experiences. I was stunned by the similarities.

At the time of this post-apopolyptic publication, it probably never entered anyone’s minds that we might find ourselves in a similar world predicament in 2020, fighting for our lives and trying so hard to keep a vision of hope and ultimately return to some kind of normalcy.

I understand this book is part of a series and will read the others in due time.