Personally, I have no idea.
So I've set up a poll to learn what you think. It's pretty simple- you either vote Yes or No.
Then again, if not many people vote, that's kind of a No in and of itself.
Either way, I'll let my editor know how the vote goes. And thank you for your thoughts and opinions.
135 comments:
Yes. There's so much you wonder about when you finish the third that a fourth is a must!! Will they find the safe town? Will conditions ever get better? Will there be more babies? These books are based on an excellent & unique plot & the characters deserve their ending.
I would love to see what happens next. But at the same time, I totally understand if you want to leave it where you left it.
I just finished "Life as we knew it" and it was amazing. it left me hooked and im staring the next one. I vote yes because this is a great series.
Yes!!! I love the books! I about died waiting for my friend to read the dead and the gone! I finally got it so im on it!
yess! i love the books! can't wait to read this world we live in!
Hi! I voted yes, but it's a lot more complicated than that.
I don't really want to see you retire, but I don't want you stuck in a rut, either. I do think the current ending is fine for the series. But honestly, I would have said the same thing after each of these books, and I was clearly wrong about that.
But I'm just as willing to get excited by this new chapter sevenless gothic horror novel--or whatever new thing you come up with--as I am about a forth moon book. So really you can interpret my vote for "yes" any way you want to.
Yes yes yes!!!
Yes. I'd like to see what happens next.
Yes yes yes! I have told everyone I know about these books. I read all three back in Nov or Dec and still can't stop thinking about them! Thank u!
Please, please, please!
They feel like family to me and I want to know what happens when Alex finds out what Miranda did. I want to see how Jon reacts when he finds out. (In fact, if Miranda is too old to be the main character for a YA novel, maybe it could be from Jonny's POV!) I want to find out how the world goes on! And my kids at school do, too!
Thank you very much!
Yes, yes, yes! I read your series twice, and then passed them on to my sister and daughter (who also loved them). PLEASE continue the series...at least one more book!
I think that there should be like 6 books, so deffentily a 4th.
YES! there most definatly should be. maybe even with different characters because, while i do love miranda and her family and friends, the rest of the US is a blank for me (except for rhode island, they all drowned). so yeah!
Yes please!
I'm voting yes again…can I do that? haha…& I agree that you could take this past 4 to 5 & 6! :)
As I said before, no trilogy is complete without a fourth book.
(So my answer is 'yes.')
Glen
Simple: YES!
Yes, yes, and yes! I know of two other fans who would as well. My sister was downright angry when I told her it was the end of the trilogy.
Yes, please! I would love to find out what's happening in the rest of the world. Does it get better? How does the world adapt? Does Miranda & her family find the safe town?
As qwertyuiop mentioned, writing it from the POV of new characters would be good - with maybe a mention of the family - just so long as we found out more. :0)
It's the influence of the super moon. We get snow on the first day of spring, and we start thinking about what other horrible catastophes will befall our favorite characters.
Earthquakes, tsunamis, radiation laden snow, poisoned seas?
Of course if you really want to write about disaster, have Miranda and Alex end up in the theater where Spiderman is being "produced."
There should definitely be a fourth book, I feel like the ending of the 3rd book doesn't suffice as the end. However, I personally like Alex's POV more then Miranda's. So to put icing on the cake (or the cover on the book), Write it in Alex's POV!!
I've always been for a fourth book -- even if it's set decades later with the unearthing of Miranda's diaries, contrasted, of course with what the historians know about what happened to the family (I've always thought that Jon eventually goes into the Army so that Laura, Miranda, and especially Gabriel will get special benefits, and becomes a famous general or something). I'd also want to know more about the Laura-Miranda dynamic; I've always thought there was more to that than Miranda just being a spoiled brat. But that's just me.
Anonymous Santa Fe
Ms. Pfeffer,
I've enjoyed all 3 of your novels in this series and would adore a fourth. Is the whole world like there little town? What's out there? Thanks for the other 3 books and I live in hope for a 4th.
BJR711
I loved the way you ended the trilogy. It was very satisfying for me. But the overall story has much more to tell. I'd love to meet new characters, a whole new story line based off the same scenario. Perhaps at the end, the new characters either meet the originals - or, more subtly, they pass the original characters in transit. It would give us hints about what happened to the originals...but maintains your original vision.
Either way, more more more...please. :-)
I vote yes!! I loved getting a different prespective with characters and location in the second book. I think time passing, like 10 years, would be interesting. I also think it would give time for things to improve. I want to believe they would improve AND A&M would be together.
Thanks for three great books! My sister and mom raced through them after I did.
PLEAE MAE A 4TH BOOK, THAT WOULD BE AMAZING!AND MAKE MORE STUFF HAPPEN, YOUR REALLY GOOD AT MAKING MIRANDA FEEL LIKE FAMILY
I voted yes because I love the Moon books so much, and would love to read more about the characters and world you creaated. However, if a 4th book simply doesn't come to you, please don't force it. The series really is perfect the way it is, but if those characters start talking to you again, go for it!
YES!
well i just stared reading this world we live in and i really love the part whe miranda and alex fall in love and i wants to know whats going to happen next
I agree that you ended the trilogy in a way that left me satisfied, but that being said, I still wonder about the aftermath of Miranda's actions. I agree with other commenters that I wouldn't turn my nose up at a fourth book, especially from another point of view in another part of the country. So I guess my answer is YES to a fourth book.
And I must say that these books kept me reading almost constantly. I did have to stop to make dinner for the family :) I have the books in my library collection and always recommend them to my students. They don't stay on the shelf for very long! Thanks for such well-written, heart-rending and compelling novels!
Ms. Susan,
There's no need for a poll. I think we all (readers) would love to see the 4th book.
Keep writing!
Ms. Donna M.
Wow. Is this even a question? We'd adore more Moon books. We'll read as many as you write.
YESSSSS!!!!!!
Yes Yes Yes a million times Yes!!!
YES!!! These books may be directed towards younger readers, but I'm telling you, I'm 51 and am thoroughly hooked on the moon series. They should be marketed for a broader audience (publishers take note!) I've read all three and can not wait for the next!
Yes. Perhaps NASA could find a way to push the moon back, at least to help stop the tidal problems (at least that is what I think would happen). Although life would not be the same. It might be fun to have it set a decade or so later, when society has begun to reshape.
Yes, please! Although, I thought the end to the third book (like all the others) was totally satisfying, I still want - no need - to read more. All the characters are so very real that I want to know what happens to them next.
Please!!!!! I honestly am not a reader but yet I have found a love for reading this series. I have read all 3 books atleast 5 times and trust me, the books are still good. I truly wish the ending would've given a little more as to what came next, even though I loved how you ended Miranda's diary. For the unknowing, I know I would definitely read your fourth over and over again. I'm not joking when I say I'm obsessed :-)
Yes, yes, yes, yes!!!!!! How many posts that say yes were you hoping for? I just now found this site because I was curious as to if anyone knew if there was going to be a fourth. Just my luck I found this pretty recent post. Please do!!!! Like what I read from one of your other posts that you need a life, I need a life to and I can't get out of this state until I know what happens to them!!!! Please do.
YES!!! Please make a fourth book! I'd love to read about Miranda & Alex's relationship throughout all that will happen next! It's sort of like the love and relationship stuff in Twilight! Although, I have to say that I have a new favorite book series! :) "Life As We Knew It" cries for a sequel!!
yes! =)
Yes,yes, and yes!!
YES! The books are amazing! I love all the characters and I would love to see what happens to them and their world.
If you don't want to continue, I would totally understand. Maybe put it in Jonny's point of view? Whatever you decides it okay! I am just voting yes!
I told you so. :-)
OK I was totally Pleased with this series I could totally believe that would happen but I was devastated where you left it off I VOTE YES to a next book just dont end there continue it PLEASE !!!!!
YES YES YES !!!!!!
On your "get a life" comment...I have a life and it's not that great so just keep the one you have until God gives you another one.
Should there be a 4th moon book? Why not?
Mr. Calvin said it for me. I second his comment, every bit of it.
Maybe the 4th book will not be the last, but whenever the last book does appear, it could perhaps take Paul Scott’s Staying On as a model for how to relate to the series. Staying On was the fifth book in a sequence, but you wouldn’t call it the 5th book of the quintet, rather it related to the quartet of the first 4 books as a coda or epilogue (while at the same time being a fully contained and satisfying novel by itself). It takes place decades later than the quartet, and the main characters in it had appeared just once as bit characters in the quartet. What’s more, we find out what happened to the main characters in the quartet by a single mention in passing, but for readers of the quartet who were left wondering, it is very satisfying.
Yes! The third one didn't feel like an ending. I felt like we were three books from finding out if life would be like this from now, get worse, or something better would be found.
It would be totally unforgivable of you to not write another Moon book now that we are excited at the thought of another one. Please,Please,Please write another. I am not your typical audience as I am a 50 year old woman but I have to say that I loved them. They helped me appreciate what I have. Sincerely. Brenda Shorten
Yes! I LOVE your books!
yes yes yes!
Yes, OMG I really want to read more into the story and find out what happens on the LAWKI journey. My mom and I wish that one day it becomes a movie. It would be so awesome!
Yes, PLEASE write another Moon book...in a way these books saved my life. They gave me a whole new outlook on life. I would die happy if you wrote another book. You are a brilliant writer :)
I think you should definitely make a fourth book even if it's 15 years later and Gabriel's POV. It doesn't matter who's POV but there NEEDS to be a fourth. All the books ended great but the third book ended on a cliff hanger(they leave the house but where did they go!)So I think YES.
I loved these books. My grandmother lives a few states away, and I call her every week. I must have raved about these enough on the phone while I reading them.. she went and ordered her own. She loved them as well. My boss is even reading them, and he isn't much of a reader at all.
I'm definitely all for you continuing with the series. There are so many possibilities. I would be happy even if it didn't follow the same characters.. just new one from a different part of the world..
what I loved most about these books is how raw they were.. They felt so real, because they could be. It made me think. Which isn't such a good thing. my husband laughs at me when we go grocery shopping now because I'm always slipping some extra can goods into our cart. lol
If you do decide to write more... I"ll be one of the first to preorder it when it's available! :)
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i would love to read a fourth one!! i read life as we knew it and it was so far my favorite book until i foudn out there was a 2nd one "the dead and the gone" this book is amazing!!! i have "this world we live in" right next to me right now n i cant wait to read it... when i saw this book i was a little disapointed becasue its too thin ;) i dont like to read i hate reading but your books are amazing!!! and i really hope there was a 4th one!!!! i would litteratly cry if theres not more of your books!!! im serious!!!! well i hope you write more books and just wanted to tell you that you are a very good author, my favorite one!!!!!!! so far life as we knew it and the dead and the gone are the only books ive read from the beginning till end....
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE your series! Keep 'em comin!
Yes, I just started Life As We Knew It today and I am already halfway done with it. Its a great book and I am excited to read the other two books and would love to read a forth.
Yes. Please make a fourth book. I enjoyed the first 3 so much and am sad that they are finished. I would love to see what happens next. It feels like it ended with a cliff hanger and a good place to start a new book.
Yes, but why stop at four? Keep writing and we will keep reading.
Yes, but why stop at four? Keep writing and we will keep reading.
I think there should be another book in the series, i just can't imagine u leaving all the readers in suspense.
All your books in these series are really amazing and i would definitely like to read more, but if u can't then it's fine.
Yes.
I loved the books and would love to see more. I think that the story was left hanging and they deserve more.
I didn't get to vote before the poll closed, but my answer is: Yes! A million times, yes! I'd read the phone book if you wrote it, but I'd prefer to read another moon book. Yes, yes, yes!!
I'm a Teen Librarian and both I and many of my teens love your books. I've suggested them so often to the right teens that they are never on the shelves anymore. I know we would love for you to write a 4th book in the Moon Saga and I'm sorry I couldn't vote, but I would have voted Yes to making another one.
Yes! I love your series, and would love if you made another one in the series! Please! I count your series as all of the books being ones of my favorites!
Of course. Yes!
I don't feel the series *must* continue, by any means, but I would not be at all displeased to read another book in the LAWKI world. I would even be quite interested to hear more stories of the initial survival period, should you ever care to return to that.
I'm also looking forward to your new book, though!
The first 3 books were AMAZING!!! You have to make a 4th book!!! Me and my friends loved them and Need to know what happens next!!!!
yes yes all the way yes!!!!!!! I was left just wanting to read more i love all three books and i think you should write another one!!!!!!!!!
yes yes yes all the way yes!!!!!!!! i finished the third one and i just wanted to read more!!!!!!!!
seriously, I never want those books to come to an end. They were the best books i've ever read, the third one leaves you hanging too much to not have a 4th book! The books had such a perfect balance of romance and horror, and they definently make you feel like what's happening in the book is going to happen in real life. this is my 3rd time reading all of them, so please keep up the great work and dish out some new books! :)
oh yes pleaaaaaase ! One more :)
I loved your books !
I think that you should continue the series, I'm doin ga book review at school for "Life as we knew it" and I completely fell in love with your books!
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Please! I love your books so much!
Yes, DEFINITELY! I just finished reading your third book and I'm dying to know what will happen...
Yes. I need to know what happens and if things ever get better. This series is amazing and to see it end here would be devastating. I also want to know if Alex and Miranda get married and have a family of their own. Please I love your books.
there is no doubt about it that there should be another book. but since miranda wouldn't be writing, the question is who will?
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Yes!!!! Please!!!
Yes please I would really love to know what happened to them!
YES! YES! YES! I want the story to keep going on, but this time from Alex's point of view. I'm not a big reader but when i read the first book i couldn't put it down! Most amazing series EVER! Please keep writing! I think i amaze my parents how much im reading.
I love the life as we knew it series so much! You can't stop writing them, i will die! They're so good i think you should make a movie out of them! Now that would be amazing. So i beg you! PLEASE OH PLEAS don't stop writing the books!
Oh my gosh, yes!!!
YES I HAVE READ THE BOOKS PROBALLY 2 TIME PLEASE PLEASE MAKE A 4TH BOOK.
Yes! I couldn't put these books down and it would be a shame to not find out if they survive.
YES! I Loved Loved Loved Loved LOVED the books! I know I am a little late posting this but I am rereading the series and I would really like to know what happens to Miranda! I loved the ending to the last book and I would like to see how things turn out, like if things ever get back to remotely normal or the countries figure out a system for people to live on! If she ever see's any of her friends again! I am dying to know! Your books are a hit with me and my friends! So it is a definite YES for me(:
YES!!!!!!!!
There should absolutely be a 4th book!:D your books have opened my eyes to cherish everything I actually have advantage of. Please make a fourth book!!!
YES YES YES YES YES YES YES DEFINITELY! and i thank god you are doing so :D
yessss!!! pleasee :) me and my mom are huge fans of ur moon books.... i wanna see how miranda and alex live in the safe town.... i also love how you put romance in ur "end of the world" type books.... so YES.
Ms. Pfeffer, I am I'm high school anf can honestly say I'm not much of a reader. I picked up "life as we knew it" and was immediately interested. I read all three book in about two weeks(which is insane for me and me schedule, in a good way)! I loved them all. Please continue with more books. You are truely talented. Thankyou for sharing(:
There should definitely be a fourth book,I can't imagine Life as we know it without one. Good Luck.
When is the fourth book coming? You cant stop now. My niece and I are completely hooked.
YES!!!! These books are so amazing... you should write another book from Alex's perspective!
Yes please!!!! I finished the third yesterday, and I was sooooo sad to discover there wasn't a fourth!!! These are the best books I have ever read and I want to know what happens next!!! Please please please write a fourth!!!
Yes please keep writing...I could not put this series down...I would like to know how Alex handles the truth and I'm hoping his love allow him to forgive. Through so much suffering I would like to see a happy ending for the group.
I absolutely love this trilogy and was sad when i finished the last one. I am a true fan of your books and look forward to not only a fourth book, but many more from you. Please keep on writing!
Heck Yes! These are awesome books.
Umm, I think you have your answer. Third books literally left me crying! I'm a high school senior an I hate reading but iv fallen head over heals over your books!
YES. I am a middle school librarian, and I can tell you that the students (and I) want to see more about the main characters...maybe some closure for Miranda and Alex that ends on a somewhat hopeful note???? Poor Alex has now lost both of his sisters and deserves something truly positive to happen! And maybe introduce some younger characters and follow them to keep it in the teen genre?
YES YES YES YES A KAJILLION TIMES YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YES YES YES!!! I love this series! The characters are amazing and I could not put the latest book down! These are some of the best books that I have ever read! I haven't seen many books like this one before and I just fell in love with your writing style! Its so different from the vampire/werewolf/supernatural stories that I have been reading lately! Please please write more books for this series!
natalie :)
I know I am really late for this, but I just found this blog post. I would REALLY enjoy a fourth book because I LOVED the other ones and were OBSESSED with them for a while. I think that maybe the next book could be in Alex's POV, or Johnny's, maybe even Matt or Syl's. I thought it would be cool if it were from Gabriel's POV years later, or if Alex and Miranda got married and had a kid, and he/she found their diaries and decided to write her own. I don't care whose POV it is, I just know that a fourth book would be AMAZING!!
YES. Please make a 4th book. I can't even count how many times I've read these books and I would love to see what state the world is in now. If things got better, or worse. This is a wonderful series and I'd love to see it continue.
OMG i love this series..even though the ending was good, a 4th book would be even better! so i vote yes! :D
Yes, may I have another (or a few more) please. I am reading the trilogy for like the 4th time already (other than the bible I have never read the same book twice). You have brilliantly set up a new world with characters we love that has to be explored. Please don't leave us hanging. There is so much more that we need to know....This would even make a great movie!
ABSOLUTELY!!!!!!
Yes!!!:)
There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that there should be a fourth book! I just finished 'This World we Live In', and there is so much left unsaid. These books are just unbelievably irresistible, and I need more information.
YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES
I think there SHOULD be a fourth book to the series "Life as we knew it" I love all of the books and really am excited for the fourth book (if you write it) I LOVE THIS SERIES!!(: This series has made me want to read more and more.
Yes please :)
literally i just finished the 3rd book, and felt it left off a little unsatisfactory. How bad was the town? Will they ever get to Tennessee? Sexton? You could leave it here and say 'You decide' But I really want a 4th book to 'round' it off. So yes
Absolutely yes! I devoured the series and kept scrolling in my e-reader for another chapter or at least an epilogue to explain to me what happened to the characters I had become so invested in. I felt like I was just left hanging.
please make a 4th book!! this was a great series and i want more!:)im a 7th grader and the whole time i was thinking how it could happen to our world and its amazing that its from a teens perspective!!!! ive read alot of books similar to this and i always re-read your trilogy♥ so obliviously my answer is yesyesyesyes!!!
yes, yes. I loved the books I finished all of them in under a week.
They are so good I love them
YES
YES YES YES! I really think Miranda should get back to her diaries, or just put an outside narrarator. It didnt really give to much information about what would happen to them, so a fourth book would BE CRAZY GREAT! PLEASE PLEASE MAKE ANOTHER BOOK
YES YES YES!!!!!!!! I really want to know what happens to them, PLEASE PLEASE MAKE ANOTHER BOOK
Yes! Omg yes! I need to know what happens! Yes yes yes!
Yes. there has to be a re building. Alex has to know. yes yes yes
YES YES YES!!!!!!
I say yes! But maybe have it switch between Alex's pov and Miranda's pov
And pleaseeeee keep Alex and Miranda a couple, I would cry if they split up
YES PLEASE!!!!!
I loved the series i have read each book 2 times and at the end of the thrid book i have so many question what will happen next. Like will it get warmer or will the ash go, or will they find the safe twon.
I love these books! It would be great to read another one. When I was reading the first one I seriously thought I need to buy some canned foods. I also read it in the summer so when it was snowing and they were freezing I was convinced it was winter outside. I LOVED them!!!! Please write another. I want to know what else happens.
Yes please make a fourth moon book. I LOVE the previous three! They're the ONLY books I've ever read and have not been able to put down! Words really cannot describe how much I truly love these books and would be sooo thrilled if you put out another one.
Yess!!!
when julie died i felt empty you have to write one more your great and very inspiring maybe if the baby gets kidnapped and they have to give up the passes to get him back. just an idea.
Thanks for creating such a great series of young adult books!!
I have used this book in my middle school resource room for the last few years. For many of my students this was the book that turned them into readers!!! They absolutely love reading the books and for the last 2 years I have heard: "When is she going to write the next book" a million times.
I think that should speak for itself. You have turned many reluctant readers into readers with your books and it would be really great for these kids to see the series come to a close.
So my vote and that of the 70+ students that have read this is for you to please write another book!!
Oh my gosh YESS i absolutely love the series!! I read the 3rd in 2 days!! You have to tell what happens between Alex and Miranda!!
Yes!! I love this book will but the fourth!
Will there be a 5th book?? I absolutely love this series and do not want the story to end
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