When I first got this book, I already had an emotional attachment to it. My best friend from secondary school got me this as a birthday gift, even though we hadn't been talking much, and I'd been hanging out with my friends from work a lot more.
We All Looked Up centres around 4 kids with labels in high school; the Athlete, the Slut, the Overachiever, the Slacker. When it is made news that an asteroid is about to hit, they are left with 2 months to leave these labels behind, to get to know one another, to really live.
This made me think: if an asteroid was about to hit, would I rather spend my remaining time with those friends I spent 4 years in secondary school with, but haven't been meeting or even talking with; or the friends I've been spending everyday of the last almost-year with?
Just these thoughts alone made me think I was gonna get my heart broken by this book.
Unfortunately... that didn't happen. (only a booknerd would feel disappointed about not having her heart broken hah!)
I didn't love the characters, not a single one from the 4 different point-of-views the chapters were in. Peter, dating a girl for 3 years and finding her annoying as time went by; what kind of guy is that? I felt disgusted, and could not understand why he did what he did in the darkroom.
Even as the chapters went on, I couldn't see the characters as real people. There wasn't much character development for any of them, and I couldn't fathom why they were the way they were. For me it was a failed attempt at making the characters have some side story or whatever.
I think the characters alone was a huge factor in making me really not enjoy this book, sorry to say.... I wasn't really focused and whatever was happening didn't keep me on the edge.
One good thing I liked about this book was the ending, which I shall not elaborate because spoilers. All in all, it was a great premise, but not so great characters and execution for me.
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