We All Looked Up - Tommy Wallach

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Title: We All Looked Up
Author: Tommy Wallach
Genre: YA
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 370
Date read: May, 2015

Before the asteroid we let ourselves be defined by labels:
The athlete, the outcast, the slacker, the overachiever.

But then we all looked up and everything changed.

They said it would be here in two months. That gave us two months to leave our labels behind. Two months to become something bigger than what we'd been, something that would last even after the end.

Two months to really live.


I was really intrigued by this take on a "pre-apocalyptic" novel. I've always loved post-apocalyptic and dystopian novels, but pre-apocalyptic novels are few and far between - probably because they're harder to write, I'd assume.

I think Tommy Wallach did a really good job though. I was instantly charmed by his writing style (found two quotes I wanted to write down in just the first chapter!) and he managed multiple POVs extremely well.

I'm not entirely sure what I think of the ending, but I guess I understand why he decided to end it like that... I'm not sure anything else would have worked.

A random pick that totally worked :)