I so love a good end of the world story, and this one is soooooo good! 
 It's not often I read a blurb and then read the book and I feel the blurb is *exactly* what the book is like, but in this case it is: "This Generation's The Stand... at once troubling, uplifting, scary and heart-wrenching." 
 Also, The Stand was one of my favorite books when I was the age of the characters in this book and often when a books is likened to The Stand, it ends up being a disappointment afterwards, or worse the book is dragged out over 2 or 3 or more books. But We All Looked Up definitely wasn't a disappointment: a good story, great characters, drive, action, feelings, totally unpretentious writing... a "real book", you know... Loved it! 
 Gets a star more for getting me into that reading zone :)