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A review by arggimapirate
We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach
2.0
Good, not great, this book took me some time to get into. Yesterday I finally finished it, and stayed up too late doing so, for whatever that is worth. The story follows a Breakfast Club assortment of teens living in Seattle as the earth faces a likely apocalyptic collision with an asteroid.
This is one of those books that feels like it has a foot in new adult territory (there is lots of sex, abundant access to drugs and alcohol, and minimal parental involvement), but was kept in high school to add some of the plot points (what about the school dance, guys?!).
There are quite a few adults who are not parents that appear in the story, and for almost all of them it's hard to believe they would be present and involved in these teenagers lives in the way things unfold. By the end of this book we are in full on soap opera territory.
So if slightly unrealistic, high drama featuring teens and the apocalypse sounds good to you - go for it. I feel like a superior book on a very similar theme is Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer. Vivian Apple at the End of the World by Katie Coyle is another one with a similar tone that I would recommend before this one.
This is one of those books that feels like it has a foot in new adult territory (there is lots of sex, abundant access to drugs and alcohol, and minimal parental involvement), but was kept in high school to add some of the plot points (what about the school dance, guys?!).
There are quite a few adults who are not parents that appear in the story, and for almost all of them it's hard to believe they would be present and involved in these teenagers lives in the way things unfold. By the end of this book we are in full on soap opera territory.
So if slightly unrealistic, high drama featuring teens and the apocalypse sounds good to you - go for it. I feel like a superior book on a very similar theme is Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer. Vivian Apple at the End of the World by Katie Coyle is another one with a similar tone that I would recommend before this one.