"Life as We knew it" Evaluation AP LANG

 Life as We Knew It, a mind boggling novel of impending doom and a dystopian society that is both intense and perhaps even possible. It was a tale that took time to enchant, and quite frankly, it took way too much time for something exciting to happen.
 Excitement is such a limited term. In my opinion, excitement should happen to the narrator, not anyone around them. It seems like Miranda spends more time on her melodramatic issues instead of something exciting like a tsunami or a hurricane.
 Teenagers are hairy beasts that crave one victim, excitement. Average students within Allen Park High School's classes do anything they can to achieve that adrenaline rush. A mandated novel has to have that excitement factor or else it fails to capture the attention spans of the studnets.
 The novel in itself has a very interesting subject, and a very relatable storyline. However, when reading a dystopian doomsday diary (try saying that three times fast), the expectation is well... Higher. Who needs to know about the one common person of thousands who survived? The true excitement lies within the one man who was facing the tsunamis with only his fists to save him. He would barely survive the tsunami, and while he was trying to get a grasp on the catastrophe that surrounded him, a terrror filled herd of rabid humans attack him to see if he has any food on him. He fights them off again with his robust fists of manly toughness. He then ends with one final slap of destiny and a catchphrase.
 That would be a tale an average teenager would be seen reading.
 Life as We Knew It wasn't terrible, it just wasn't something everyone could really be captivated by. As a One Book One School choice, it wasn't very satisfying. If the choice could change, something much more Action Packed, like the novel Hunger Games, is recommended. Now that was a very energetic dystopian. In the older, less braced faced and acne filled world, Life as We Knew It is a capital selection. It captures every single character's personality, and has a voice that is based around the narrator. Miranda's voice is her own, not the author's. The novel was overall pretty interesting. It just wasn't the form of interesting that would be acknowledged by my attention lacking generation.