The Dead & the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer

The Dead & The Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer-308 pages

This is the second book in Pfeffer's Last Survivor's series.  In the first book, Life as We Knew It, an asteroid has collided with the moon which knocked it closer to Earth.  Because of the different gravitational pull, all sorts of natural disasters happen and you find out how a family in Pennsylvania deal with the hardships.  In The Dead and The Gone, the perspective if from a teenage boy living in New York City and the things he must do to take care of himself and his two sisters after the moon is hit.  I was hesitant to read this because I liked Life as We Knew It so much and really felt that it could have been a stand alone.  I don't think this lived up to the first novel, but it was nice to read a different perspective.

Shadow of the Titanic: the Extraordinary Stories of Those Who Survived by Andrew Wilson

Shadow of the Titanic: the Extraordinary Stories of Those Who Survived by Andrew Wilson  361 pages

We normally don’t think much about the survivors of the Titanic once they had been rescued. Yet the survivors did have lives after the disaster. Many escaped with little more than the pajamas they were wearing. Others came home to find that the family fortunes in tatters. Some made fortunes on their new notoriety. Some were branded as cowards and some as heroes and many deserved the brand. Although most were just people caught in unexpected circumstances. As I read the book I came to realize that maybe J. Bruce Ismay may not have been the evil person we were lead to believe.

This book is a good way of completing the last chapter in this terrible tragedy. And after 100 years, those who went through that time could use the peace and quiet.