I did enjoy this book a lot. You're right about the diary entries, it was a brilliant way to show Miranda's personal changes, the way events impacted on her and also saved the book from being overrun by having to put in heaps of technical stuff that would have pushed a lot of readers away.
I most enjoyed the way she took an extremely possible scenario and showed the way it can pretty much end humanity as we know it. The title was catchy, the storyline was followable.
I was so excited to discover there was a sequel. I had decided after the ending she gave there simply must be. Sadly [i]The Dead And The Gone[/i] didn't grip me as much. I found the narrator harder to handle, and it didn't grab me as much. But then, such an act as [i]Life As We Knew It[/i] is hard to follow successfully.
you are right about the book. i read it and it made me think of the things i have in life. it makes you really think of the present and the future. will i actually happen some day or is it all in our minds?!?
I started reading it but couldn't finish because it dragged on so much.
There was way too much of nothing happening.
It was a nice idea, but... maybe a little too realistic in the sense of extremely trivial things happening almost every day.
If it's your type of thing, read it. It just wasn't my taste.