‘He smiled, one of those wistful smiles, like he was already missing something that wasn’t gone yet. The kind that made her want to cry.’
What if you were told you could have two months left to live, but that there was no way to know if the world would or would not be obliterated in that time? What would you do?
Would you try to live? Or would you resign yourself to die?
The President of the United States could not confirm that the world was about to end, for even NASA and other space agencies could not predict with a hundred percent certainty that the asteroid was going to collide with the earth and wipe away all that man had built on the surface. He did, however, give them a time period. And that was when the human race changed. But for Andy, Anita, Eliza and Peter, and millions of other, this was it. Their chance to create something that would last even after the end. Something that mattered.
“In that moment, she stopped being afraid of it, even dared it to come, because she knew there was no way that it could crave death as much as she craved life.”
We All Looked Up is a beautiful, poignant, moving tale. It is not really about the apocalypse, but more about what life is like when the end might be approaching. And nobody, nobody, could have summed up what you could feel better than Tommy Wallach. The tale is crude, with morals disappearing and violence spreading, but it is also an insanely beautiful story about humanity and how far you would really go for someone else. You should definitely read this book. Five stars!
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