The Dead and the Gone

Way too preachy

Madre de Dios.At first, I was a little annoyed when I found out this was a companion to [b:Life as We Knew It 213753 Life as We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1) Susan Beth Pfeffer http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1328012816s/213753.jpg 206925] and not a continuation. I wanted to find out more about Miranda's family! I didn't have time to get to know different characters and learn to like them. It actually did take me a while to get attached to the Morales family but it did happen and once it did, I was just as hooked on this one as I had been to LAWKI.As a poor family living in New York, the Morales kids had a much harder time of it than the Evans clan. Things were definitely horrible for Miranda, but Alex had to deal with much more. Miranda lost people because they moved away. Alex lost people because they died.There is a lot of religion and spirituality in this book. Alex and his sisters are devout Catholics who turn to their faith for everything. I appreciate that Pfeffer seemed to have more respect for it in this book because I didn't like how the religious characters were portrayed in the first book.If you liked the first one, I can't guarantee you'll like this one, but I recommend that you try!

I went into this expecting it to be fairly bad. I think I'd seen some poor reviews in the past that scared me away.

Foolish.

Really, this was good. It was cool to see the same apocalyptic event in another person's eyes. I think most of the characters were relatable and reacted in ways that made sense with their situations. The only character I didn't care for was Bri, but only because her hopeless hope was SO irritating.

I guess I'll be finishing this series after all.