We All Looked Up by Tommy WallachGenre: Contemporary
Release Date: 26th March, 2015
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
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Four high school seniors put their hopes, hearts, and humanity on the line as an asteroid hurtles toward Earth in this contemporary novel.
They always say that high school is the best time of your life.
Peter, the star basketball player at his school, is worried “they” might actually be right. Meanwhile Eliza can’t wait to escape Seattle—and her reputation—and perfect-on-paper Anita wonders if admission to Princeton is worth the price of abandoning her real dreams. Andy, for his part, doesn’t understand all the fuss about college and career—the future can wait.
Or can it? Because it turns out the future is hurtling through space with the potential to wipe out life on Earth. As these four seniors—along with the rest of the planet—wait to see what damage an asteroid will cause, they must abandon all thoughts of the future and decide how they’re going to spend what remains of the present.
Full disclosure, I was intrigued by the premise of this book because 1. it sounded promisingly introspective and 2. it sounded similar to The 100. I am so transparent at times, honestly. Anyway, We All Looked Up is a fairly unique novel that discusses the idea of humanity going the way of the dinosaurs. An asteroid is discovered to be heading toward a direct collision with Earth; its arrival almost certainly means the instant extermination of nearly all life on the planet (or as I like to call it, ‘the beginning of a potentially great apocalyptic novel’). Scientists predict its arrival/the end of the world in two months time; the story follows a group of teenagers in the aftermath of this news as they try to come to terms with their suddenly tiny life span.