Before Ardor came, we let ourselves be defined by labels - the Athlete, the Slut, the Slacker, the Overachiever. But then we all looked up, and everything changed. They said the asteroid would be here in two months. That gave us two months to leave our labels behind. Two months to become something bigger than what we'd been, something hat would last even after the end. Two months to really live.
*Minor Spoilers*
The most appropriate way to describe this novel is as the Apocalyptic Breakfast Club. It has this Science Fiction element but the story really revolves around the characters trying to discover who they are when they have such an undefined amount of time left to really live.
Each chapter revolved around one of the four main characters. There was Peter who was set to go to Stanford and become a professional athlete or coach. There was Eliza who gained the reputation of Slut after having her first conversation with Peter and making out with him in the black room, while he had a girlfriend of a couple years. Then there was Andy, who really didn't care about anything besides getting high and hanging out with Bobo. And finally there was Anita, who's parents put way to much pressure on her and who really just wanted to be a singer.
One night all of their lives change because an asteroid known as Ardor is spotted and it is determined that there is a 66.66% chance that it will collide with the earth and kill absolutely everyone. So the four main characters form a Karass, which is a theory by Keith Vonnegut that there are groups of people who unknown to themselves are linked to fulfill the will of God or some other fate.
There is some romance, abuse, self-discovery, crime, corruption, and death. I won't tell you who dies but let's just say it made me so fucking sad! Like why Tommy did you kill him.
Tommy also produced the album accompaniment to the book titled We All Look Up: A Album and it can be bought on itunes or listened to on his website www.tommywallach.com or on my spotify playlist https://open.spotify.com/user/1262452242/playlist/4TsCCB6w9Jdumiz0dB9BAA. many of the songs are those written and performed in the book and then he has others that just revolve around the themes of the novel.
Pages: 370 Rate: 4/5
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