We’re sorry, but this post is in another castle.

We’re sorry, this post is in another castle.

We’re sorry, this post is in another castle.

We’re sorry, but this post is in another castle.

This book is depressing. Or, as the author likes to say on her blog, it is 150% filled with bleakity bleak. There is bleak, and then there is bleak. This book is the latter. The ending even had me going, “wow, that is DEPRESSING.” (And I think the ending is supposed to be HAPPY.)

Do not read to be happy. In fact, do not read anywhere when you’re already feeling low, feeling extra cheerful, or anytime near a full moon. Any other time is (mostly) fine. However, there’s no escaping being depressed.

The story starts off normally, with the big event of an asteroid hitting the moon. It’s trotted out to the masses as a one-in-a-lifetime spectacle. Miranda, who narrates the story through diary entries, is interested but more bothered by the fact that all her teachers are using it to assign extra homework. Then the asteroid hits, and the moon’s orbit is shifted. This changes the entire make-up of the Earth as the altered orbit throws wrenches into normal weather patterns, changes the tides, and other nasty phenomenon. Through it all, Miranda’s family has to survive and adjust to the way the world is now.

In other words, it was Day After Tomorrow in YA form, and without Jake Gyllenhaal. But if they wanted to cast him as Matt in the movie version of this book (this would be awesome) I am all for it. Read the rest of this entry »