*Spolier Alert* Review For The Dead And The Gone By Susan Beth Pfeffer

book: The Dead And The Gone By Susan Beth Pfeffer
Published By Graphia 2008
Pages 308
Themes/Subjects: End Of The World, Survival, Faith In God, Family

First Line:" At the moment when life as he had known it changed forever, Alex Morales was behind the counter at Joey's Pizza, slicing a spinach pesto pie into eight roughly equal pieces."

This book was about Alex Morales, a 17 year old puerto-rican boy living in New York City. One day while at work an astroid hit the moon and pushed it closer to the Earth causing catastrophic events which cause most of the people in the world to die. His Father, who was in Puerto-Rico when this happened, his Mother, who went to work in Queens that night, and his brother Carlos, who is in the Marines, are never to be heard of again. He is left to take care of his two younger sisters, Brianna, who is 14, and Julie, just on the verge of 13. He sends Brianna off to a convent where she would get food and warmth. This would help Julie and him save food since it was all running out around the world. Just as soon as things couldn't get worse, all the volcanoes in the world start errupting causing ash to block out sunlight.
Then, many bodies started appearing on the streets so Alex and his friend Kevin go bodyshopping to get coats and many other things to trade for food. This goes well until Brianna comes bad with a horrible case of asthma which was caused by all the ash in the air. All three of them struggle through December, and they are hit with grief. Kevin died while body shopping with Alex and a tree limb fell on his neck, and Brianna died on an elevator going up to the floor they are on, with her inhaler and rosary beads in her hands. Alex and Julie finally get a way to get out of New York before they run out of food.
This book was not the best because Alex was always ordering his sisters around and he didn't care if they wanted to do it or not. Also because they had a lot of dead bodies in it which were described very well and gave you a bad image. I would recommend this to anyone who is a guy and won't get grossed out at the descriptions.

2.5/5 Stars