Book Review: We All Looked Up

I read We All Looked Up by Tommy Walach. I thought this book was, overall, a decent well-rounded novel. It had many advanced syntax techniques that drew the reader in, and made you want to keep reading. However, although there were exciting and thrilling parts throughout the novel, there were also sections of the book where it seemed to drag on. They were mostly dialogue, but there was no real characterization during these times in the plot. Also, when dialogue was presented, there seemed to be a lack of suspense and action that were able to move the story along.

Some good aspects of the plot, were that during the high action times there was elements that drew the reader in. Most of the high action scenes were important and that also kept the audience entertained. The final-and in my view the most essential-element of the novel was the fact that they were told from varying perspectives of the different characters that appeared in the novel.


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The thing I disliked the most in the book was that in the end, one of the main characters dies. Now, I am not normally for the whole sappy-romance lovey-dovey type of novels, however with this novel I thought that the book ended terribly. Eliza and Peter (both main characters) are unlikely lovers and this was one thing that I didn't think was as clichè as most novels. Because of this, I began to read more and more, that is until the ending. Peter dies near the end of the book. Not at the end, near it. After the truth was revealed I immediately wanted to stop reading the novel because of this.

Overall, I really enjoyed the novel despite the (again, in my opinion) the dragged on parts and horrible ending.