All the Bright Places

Beautifully written, engrossing, will make you smile, laugh, cry and break your heart. This book draws you in like stepping in quicksand (anyone who has read the book will know the reason I used this example as it is used by Finch). While it is a great story about loss and how to deal with it, along with the pains of teenage fitting in, being shunned, etc, along with discovering love and what that means, this book deals very forcefully and in your face with teen depression and suicide. In fact, at the end of the book, the author tells her own sad experiences with it, making it clear how she was able to write this story with such force and such heart wrenching feelings. But, but, but, this is a beautiful book! It is so compelling, and you get so attached to the characters, and their love story, that it is an absolutely beautiful story for anyone of any age. The two main characters, Violet and Finch, come from two very different worlds. Violent was very popular, with the in crowd, until she lost her sister in a car accident which she feels guilty about is suffering from severe depression and gets more and more isolated from her friends. Finch, "The Freak" as he is labelled by almost all his classmates, is ostracized and constantly made to feel he really is a freak. Then one day when he is standing on the Belltower of the school, contemplating jumping, suddenly Violent appears there beside him, contemplating the exact same thing. Ironically, Finch saves Violet, but everyone at the school thinks Violent saved him, since he a Freak and has been noted as being suicidal. Finch, a genuinely nice guy, never tells anyone that he actually saved her, and for that Violet is so truly thankful to him. Then they end up doing a class project together, and in each other they find a true deep friendship, that eventually becomes more. This is a touching love story, but it is so much more than that. It deals with real issues about teen depression and loss. If you enjoyed reading The Perks of Being a Wallflower, you will likely love this book as well.

All the Bright Places is an amazing book and incredibly well-written. It is such an emotional story and by far one of my favorite books of all time. It tells a very important story thats very meaningful! I promise you will not regret reading this book!

It took me a bit to get into this book. I am not sure why, maybe it took a while to fully connect to the characters. Maybe it's also because people kept saying it was a cross between Eleanor & Park and The Fault In Our Stars. I really loved Eleanor and Park so it's a hard sell to compare it to that. But once I connected to these characters, I really connected. This is a story of Finch and Violet. Finch is obsessed with death while Violet is recovering from a car accident where she survived. but her sister didn't. At first, I didn't care for Finch because he kept pushing Violet to do things that she wasn't ready to do, like ride in a car or deal with her sister's death. Then I realized just why Finch was the way he was and I also realized that Violet needed these pushes. Everyone else in her life was letting her just skate by and not deal with anything. I won't give any spoilers, but I figured out why Finch was the way he was and it wasn't hard to deduce what the ending would be. This did not take away from the story though. I could tell by the chapter headings that they were helping each other. At first, Violet was counting down the days until graduation. So the title of every chapter was the number of days until "freedom." Somewhere through the middle of the book though, she stopped counting. She wasn't waiting to escape her town and the memories of her sister's death. She was living and enjoying the present and her relationship with Finch. This is such a moving and heartbreaking story about depression and mental illness. When I started this book, I wasn't expecting to feel a sense of urgency to finish it. But then I started reading a bit before going to bed at 10pm (as I usually do). Cut to me at midnight, still awake because I can't possibly go to sleep until I finish Violet and Finch's story. I ended the night sobbing in bed. This was such a powerful story and completely worth all the hype.

Omslaget till boken kom trasigt, som om någon klippt i det högst upp

My book came damaged and had a big rip from The side

PLOT The plot was not the most unique plots that have ever amused the people on Earth but still it connected. It connected to the level I can’t possibly explain. I know it has something to do with my brain and the hormones it produced when I read this book but believe me they were good hormones. Two people accidently meet on the top of the Bell Tower, both trying to attempt suicide. Both of them don’t and then pair up for a school project which required the students to go to the major attractions of the town and note whatever they saw. The book survived only on this story and as I ‘m typing this I realize that this is the simplest plot I’ve heard of. Two people meet for a project and they fall in love. There was a single and tiny thing that I wanted to point out. ~THE TEXT IN RED IS A SPOILER TO THE BOOK ~ I didn’t like that in the end the author lets suicide win. It meant that anyone should end their life and just gain that peace that they’ve been searching for. It’s just a little thing that made me think about. ~ END OF SPOILERS ~ CHARACTERS Theodore Finch is one of the most complex characters in the fictional world. He does what he thinks is right and most of the time it isn’t close to right but his intentions are right, just the way he does what he does is a bit too loud, I guess. He is sure intelligent and knows what to do. (I’m talking about the book’s last part. The ones who have red this know what I mean!) Violet Markey is a girl who is still in the stage of grieving after 9 months of her sister’s death. She tries to commit suicide, unsure of really how to do it. She is talked through it by Finch and it saves her. She is a writer but she left writing anything after her sister’s death but after she meets Finch she starts writing again. I love the fact that they both complement each other and inspire each other to do something good. WRITING STYLE The writing style is so smooth that I never thought about it after the books starts; and it’s a good sign. A good writer’s story is the one you flow by reading and don’t really concentrate while reading. I read the book in almost 5-6 hours and that’s when I couldn’t stop myself. I wanted to know the end of the book and I wasn’t going to sleep and waste time so instead I stayed up late and read the whole book! And it was a blessing that all of the people in my house were sleeping and I was the one only awake because what came next couldn’t be seen by anyone. I ugly cried. Yes, I did. And you will too; unless you a) you have a heart of rock, or b) your tear glands don’t work. MY REVIEW This is one of the best books I’ve read in this year and I’m glad I picked though it being a contemporary novel (I don’t usually read those, but I’m GLAD I read this) YOU’LL LIKE IT IF:- You like contemporary reads. You like a short, sweet and romantic book You are okay of the fact that this book’s main plot contains suicide You are okay with the fact that you’d be ending your read with ugly crying You are okay with the fact that you probably have to read this book in some little corner of your room where nobody visits but you YOU’LL NOT LIKE IT IF:- You are not okay of the fact that this book’s main plot contains suicide You don’t like short and sweet books, you need something deep and thoughtful like a sci-fi read maybe. You are not okay with the fact that you’d be ending your read with ugly crying You are not okay knowing that you have to sit in privacy I give it 4.5/5 stars just because of that small problem.

It is very rare for a book to make me cry, but this one brought me to tears. It is a devastatingly beautiful story about two teenagers who suffer from depression who find each other and fall in love. As Violet and Finch fell in love with each other, I came to love the both of them, as I'm sure you will too. They are such real characters that you can't help but care about. They feel so real and alive on the page, and their story becomes your story as well. All The Bright Places is not a book to read if you want something happy. It is educational and hopeful and powerful, but it is also incredibly heart-breaking. Violet and Finch will stay with you long after you finish the book, and you will feel the loss. I am both grateful and regretful that I read this book. On one hand, it is an amazing story. On the other hand, I feel like I just lost a friend. Jennifer Niven is an incredibly talented author and I hope she pursues more YA books in the future. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in learning more on depression and mental disabilities, or anyone who is suicidal and/or has lost someone to suicide.

Não tenho o costume de ler YA, então não sabia muito o que esperar desse livro. Comprei porque li a sinopse e me interessei. Acabei me surpreendendo muito com a escrita e o rumo da história. Gostei tanto que comprei a versão em inglês também. Acho que tem alguns problemas com o desenvolvimento de alguns personagens, até mesmo da Violet, que só passei a gostar do meio pro fim da história. Mas no geral, me emocionei e me identifiquei com o livro. Acho que por ser baseado na vida da autora, ela conseguiu ser bem realista ao tratar dos temas abordados no livro. Trigger warning: se você for sensível às temáticas de morte e suicídio, não leia essa livro, pois fala-se disso o tempo todo. Ps.: não percam tempo assistindo ao filme, é muito inferior ao livro.