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The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook by Joshua Piven, reviewed by Andriana Z.

Joshua Piven, a former editor at Ziff-Day Publishing, and David Borgenicht, author of several notification books, come together to write a complete guide for survival in The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook. This book helps show how to survive when life’s little turns, turn us into a very dangerous situation.

The book features forty-two different short survival and worst-case scenario techniques, from escaping from killer bees to delivering a baby in a taxicab! Whatever the situation, the survival secrets are here. The book even teaches you to perform a tracheotomy, and wrestle an alligator! It is truly amazing.

The book offers interesting survival techniques. It shows us that instead of looking at a bad situation with hesitation, we can accomplish anything by approaching a negative situation in a positive way. So, whenever I decide that I want to leap from a motorcycle to a car, there is no need to fear because I have learned from reading this book, it is all about balance.

Although this book did have some interesting ways to survive, the information itself is a little boring. It is easy to get lost in the explanations; especially the explanations of how to use a defibrillator to restore a heartbeat and how to fend off a shark (which is really easy now that I have read about it).

This book was interesting, fun, and exciting to read. Now that I have read this book, I dare anyone of my classmates to sword fight with me, or push me off an airplane with a parachute that won’t open. This book deserves three-and-a-half stars for its wonderful and interesting information that is useful to everyone.