I have a rule that when a student brings me a book to read, I will read it. 
 And I'm glad that I read this one, but I didn't quite think it was the best book ever as my darling student described it. In fact, he thinks that I should teach it since it is such a wonderful coming of age story. 
 We All Looked Up gets off to a very solid start-- I was captivated by each of the characters pretty quickly, and the premise is awesome. I liked that, for once, we had this disaster story where the teenage characters weren't unrealistically involved in the disaster. This was more about how all of us normal people would deal and live in the face of impending doom. 
 Unfortunately, I felt like after the first third of the book, all of those characters lost any of the quirks that made them interesting. All of a sudden, they were caricatures of themselves, especially Peter. I was confused about when exactly we were supposed to get the gist that he was religious. And Bobo was just completely irredeemable and unlikeable. Misery seemed to have the most story in her, but she was frequently swept to the side. And the parents just sucked or were too non-existent for an end of the world scenario in my opinion. 
 And the ending? While I like the concept of having this open-ended conclusion where we are unsure what happens, I thought it cheapened any effect that the earlier deaths were supposed to have.