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The eagerly awaited addition to the series begun with the New York Times best-seller Life As We Knew It, in which a meteor knocks the moon off its orbit and the world changes forever.
It's been more than two years since Jon Evans and his family left Pennsylvania, hoping to find a safe place to live, yet Jon remains haunted by the deaths of those he loved. His prowess on a soccer field has guaranteed him a home in a well-protected enclave. But Jon is painfully aware that a missed goal, a careless word, even falling in love, can put his life and the lives of his mother, his sister Miranda, and her husband, Alex, in jeopardy. Can Jon risk doing what is right in a world gone so terribly wrong?
- Sales Rank: #63302 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-08-13
- Released on: 2013-08-13
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Booklist
The fourth book in the Life as We Knew It series focuses on Jon, younger brother to Miranda and friend of Julie from the previous titles. It’s four years since a meteor crashed into the moon, killing billions and changing everything. Now that things have somewhat settled down, the remains of society are stratifying. Jon is in Sexton with his stepmother and baby half-brother; because of the passes they possess, life is better. Jon’s mother, Miranda, and her husband, Alex, live nearby as grubs, the worker bees whose endlessly long days of bitterly hard labor sustain the surrounding areas. And Julie? She’s dead. In fact, it’s her pass that has allowed Jon to live in Sexton, but thanks to events surrounding her death, his privileges engender considerable guilt. Then Jon learns exactly how Julie died, and everything is turned upside down once more. The pampered and weak Jon is not a particularly likable character, but in some ways that intensifies the story, as the moral choices he makes become successively more complicated. Pfeffer’s well-written take on what life might be as it returns to “normal” is sometimes brutal and always depressingly real. Grades 7-10. --Ilene Cooper
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"Action-packed and completely unpredictable, this latest will be widely anticipated by the series' many fans."
—Kirkus
"Pfeffer's well-written take on what life might be as it returns to 'normal' is sometimes brutal and always depressingly real."
—Booklist
About the Author
Susan Beth Pfeffer is the author of many books for teens, including the New York Times best-selling novel Life As We Knew It, which was nominated for several state awards, and its companion books, The Dead and the Gone, This World We Live In, and The Shade of the Moon. She lives in Middletown, New York.
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61 of 64 people found the following review helpful.
Unbelievable society weakens fourth "Last Survivors" installment
By Kathy Cunningham
THE SHADE OF THE MOON is the fourth in Susan Beth Pfeffer's "The Last Survivors" series, which focuses on what happens to the world when an asteroid crashes into the moon, moving its orbit closer to Earth. The first book, LIFE AS WE KNEW IT, was Miranda Evans story of her family's devastating experiences in Pennsylvania, told through journal entries. The second book, THE DEAD AND GONE, focused on Alex Morales and his family in New York City. The third book, THIS WORLD WE LIVE IN, united both families as Miranda and Alex fell in love. Now, with THE SHADE OF THE MOON, the story continues in Tennessee, where Miranda and Alex live in a poverty-stricken town called White Birch and her younger brother Jon lives with their stepmother Lisa and her son Gabe in an "enclave" called Sexton. Billions of people have died in the four years since the asteroid hit the moon, and the world that remains is nothing at all like the one left behind. The story in this fourth installment focuses mainly on Jon's budding romance with Sarah, the daughter of the enclave's new doctor, as well as Jon's struggle to hold onto his safe place in the enclave while not betraying the rest of his family.
Apparently, society has become divided into two distinct classes - the "clavers," who live in the protected, affluent "enclaves," and the "grubs," who do the manual labor and live in "grub towns" like White Birch. Jon, Lisa, and Gabe were lucky enough to get "slips" (passes that enable them to live in an enclave town), but Alex, Miranda, and her mom Laura weren't that lucky - they are "grubs," living lives very different from the one Jon is living. Clavers have access to good food, medical care, nice homes, and education for their children. Grubs work as servants in claver homes, or in the greenhouses where food is grown, or in the mines. Jon is torn between his nice life in Sexton and his mom and sister's squalid existence in White Birch. It doesn't help that Miranda is pregnant and still expected to work ten hours a day in the greenhouses, or that new girl Sarah is a "grub-lover" - she and her doctor father are determined to do whatever they can to make life easier for the disenfranchised, and this is not at all popular with the others in the enclave. If Jon goes along with Sarah, he'll make enemies in Sexton which could risk his and Lisa's chances to remain there. But if he doesn't, he'll lose Sarah.
There are two problems with THE SHADE OF THE MOON, making it a much less successful novel than LIFE AS WE KNEW IT. First, the relationship between Jon and Sarah just isn't developed enough to make it either believable or compelling. He meets her at the start of the book, they have lunch together at school, they sit together on the bus, and then they're trading kisses. There's nothing to explain why they're attracted to each other, much less why they fall "in love" so quickly. Since this relationship is at the heart of everything that happens in the course of the novel, the lack of any real connection between them (or any believable chemistry) is problematic.
The second problem is the society Pfeffer has created in this book - the clear division of society into the clavers (or "haves") and the grubs (or "have-nots") is a bit too over-the-top to be believable. Only four years have passed since the asteroid hit the moon, and all of these characters have clear memories of what life was like before. It makes no sense that things would have devolved so quickly into a hostile environment in which the majority of the remaining population has become virtual slave labor for the privileged few. And it makes even less sense that everyone seems to comfortable with this system. No one objects. No one wants to fight for equality. When Sarah suggests that some of the kids in her class do their required volunteer work at a grub clinic in White Birch, they delight in calling her "grub-lover," one girl spits on her, and they start chanting "grubby, grubby, grubby" while their teacher laughs. Jon and his male friends routinely spend their free time in White Birch getting drunk and having sex with grub girls (who will sleep with anyone for a bar of soap). Grub servants are mistreated and overworked, the grub miners are worked to death, and grub babies are stolen from their mothers and given to infertile claver couples to raise. It's very difficult to believe that such a society could have developed in just four years. And if you can't believe in the society, the story just doesn't work.
The best part of THE SHADE OF THE MOON - the thing that saves it from being a total waste of time - is Jon's character. This is a seventeen-year-old boy who begins, through the course of the novel, to realize just how much of a coward he really is. It may have started with what happened to Julie in the previous book, but it continues in his inability to stand up for Sarah against his friends, or to protect his mother and sister from the clavers who hurt them. Jon is a flawed character, and Pfeffer definitely gets her readers to both identify with him and wonder whether their decisions in such a world would be any different than his. Would any of us risk our cushy, comfortable lives to stand up to injustice? It's the kind of question that young people need to consider.
Unfortunately, this isn't a very successful novel. I loved LIFE AS WE KNEW IT, and I enjoyed elements of the next two books. But I'm not convinced that any of the sequels were really necessary. LIFE AS WE KNEW IT worked because it was a small story, about one girl's experience during a natural disaster. At the end of that novel, Pfeffer affirmed the human spirit and our need for each other. It's very hard to understand how, in just four short years, the human spirit was conquered and greed and hatred took its place. If you've read the other three books and want to know what happens to these characters, then you might want to read this one. But it isn't a book that works well on its own. There will be more books in this series - the ending of THE SHADE OF THE MOON sets up the next installment - but LIFE AS WE KNEW IT really does stand alone. For me, this one didn't work.
30 of 34 people found the following review helpful.
Difficult to read.
By K.
I had such a hard time with this book. "Life As We Knew It" was hands-down one of the best books I've read, it was so fresh and thought provoking and realistic. It was terrifying and heart-warming, and has stayed with me in the years since I read it. I was 25 when I read it, too, so I was far from a naive impressionable youth. The next two books that came after it were decent enough, but never quite captured the thrill of the first book. When I saw that this 4th installation was coming out I jumped at the chance to read it. At first it was exciting (and a little confusing) catching up with the characters I had come to love... and I quickly realized that this story was a departure from the others. I wish this book hadn't been written. It just ruins the perfection of the original. The society that is built in The Shade of The Moon is difficult to believe, and the character and relational development is sorely lacking. If, like me, you've read the other books and are curious to see what happens to the character you loved, please take my advice and don't get this. JUST SKIP IT. You'll be much happier with how things were at the end of the 3rd book, trust me.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Disappointing 4th Book
By Parajunkee
PJV Quickie: Susan Beth Pfeffer's much anticipated fourth installment in her "The Last Survivors" series, was highly anticipated by this reader, but unfortunately wasn't all that I had expected. We ended the third book with hope and the fourth book just crushed that right out of me. I think this fourth book was probably a mistake for the series, I was excited to hear the Pfeffer was writing another Survivors novel, but upon reading it, I was disappointed. The first three books were so good and this one just blew that all to smithereens.
REVIEW: THE SHADE OF THE MOON is from Jon's point of view, Jon is Miranda's younger brother and was always shown as a bit selfish in the other three books. While mom and sister are starving to death, Jon is complaining about his food portions. His mom continually sacrificed for him, including right up to the end, but the child never seemed to realize what those sacrifices meant and showed very little gratitude. I'm explaining this to you, because it is what my frame-of-mind was, when I went into this book. Now you have Jon a few years later, in high school and living it up in what is call The Clavers area of his new town.
The Clavers are basically the privileged few, they have their town sectioned off with purification in all the apartments and houses and each Claver has domestics that serve them. Jon and Lisa were allowed entry into the Enclave, with the baby Gabe, because of the passes that Alex had picked up in New York city in the second novel. Miranda, Laura and Alex all sacrifice so new mom Lisa, young tween Jon and baby Gabe can live a better life. They now live as Clavers, classified as "slips" because they slipped through with their passes, instead of going through the initial triage of the town's foundation, when all non-essentials were booted out and only people that could better the community were allowed in.
Outside of the Enclave exists the Grub towns, where the people that do the hard-labor and domestic work live. Miranda, Alex and Laura are all relegated to living in Grub town, Miranda is a domestic, Alex a bus driver and Laura a teacher. They have just the basics to live off of, while Jon is allowed to go to high school, play soccer and be a regular kid. At the start of this novel he is no better then he was in any of the other novels. He has an inflated sense of self, hanging around ridiculous other boys who are nasty characters. In the beginning they burn down the Grub school just to "show those Grubs."
Jon shows very little back-bone throughout the novel, even his little act of rebellion, a romance with the daughter of Grub Town doctor, Sarah is hidden. They meet in secret because if his friends find out they are dating, it might destroy his tenuous hold on their society. His friends believe Sarah's father pushed out a prominent Enclave doctor for the position and that they are grub sympathizers. Even the relationship between the two characters is an insta-love. They just begin secretly dating and sneaking around. They fight about their hidden status before Pfeffer even established a "love" with the reader. It was very poorly constructed and conveyed no titillation on my end.
Finally, the world that is constructed, just seems like Pfeffer was reaching for a dystopian setting, when her novel should clearly still be in its apocalypse infancy. There has only been a few years since the asteroid hit and here we have this highly developed dystopian landscape of oppression, slave-labor and privileged few. I found it quite unbelievable that a society could bloom like this so quickly, that people that were in a normal American, democratic society could suddenly treat a group of people so poorly and have the mass majority okay with it. We are not talking a band of mercenaries or group of tyrants that have banded together, this is a whole city of women, children and men, families that as a whole have suddenly come to view people living outside of their society as beneath them in a few short years, no empathy or concern. Characters like Sarah, who are trying to help these "grubs" are treated poorly just because of their socially conscious view-point.
This works in an apocalypse novel when it's a band of religious zealots that have banded together, or escaped convicts, but this is set in a "repaired" society setting, which just didn't work.
I hate to bash on this novel so much, especially having been such a BIG fan of the other books. I believe LIFE AS WE KNEW IT is one of the best apocalypse novels out there and everyone should read it. But, this one, just put a damper in the series for me. You pair this bad dystopian setting with a very unlikeable character and it just left me feeling uncaring of where this novel was heading, the only thing that kept me reading was the small glimpses I got of Miranda and Alex, which were too few and far between. Especially with Jon's point of view to mess up things.
I know the point of this book was to redeem this boy in the end and be all huggy-kissy "oh finally he's seen the light." But, his persona throughout all four books was so devolved that any progression seemed forced. I think Pfeffer was torn in trying to deliver a stand-alone novel with a recurring character from the series. Maybe if I hadn't read the first three I might have liked Jon more, but as a fan of the series I feel cheated. His progression throughout this novel was not worth it.
Overall it saddens me to say that THE SHADE OF THE MOON was a disappointment and three years of anticipation of this novel feels like a joke. The only redeeming quality of this novel was the continuation of the story and Pfeffer's lovely writing style. If I didn't have such an investment with the series this would probably be a DNF.
Recommendations: Fans of apocalypse young adult novels and fans of the series. There is talk of sexual interaction, rape - so I would recommend a mature teen reader.
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