All The Bright Places | Mini Review

Written by: Jennifer Niven

Goodreads rating: 4.18 / 5 | My rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟 / 5

Synopsis:

Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him.

Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister’s recent death.

When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, it’s unclear who saves whom. And when they pair up on a project to discover the “natural wonders” of their state, both Finch and Violet make more important discoveries: It’s only with Violet that Finch can be himself—a weird, funny, live-out-loud guy who’s not such a freak after all. And it’s only with Finch that Violet can forget to count away the days and start living them. But as Violet’s world grows, Finch’s begins to shrink.

My thoughts:

So what can I say! There’s nothing bad I can say about All The Bright Places. I love the way it was written, how the characters were created and described. Everything about it was amazing!. I had mixed emotions the whole time I was reading it, I actually cried 😭. I couldn’t put it down, I just had to continue reading it. I can’t wait to watch the movie! I highly recommend it!. I also can’t wait to read more books by Jennifer Niven.

“Im struggling in this shitty messed up world. Standing on the ledge of the bell tower isnt about dying, its about having control.”

About the author:

By the time I was ten, I had already written numerous songs, a poem for Parker Stevenson (“If there were a Miss America for men, You would surely win”), two autobiographies (All About Me and My Life in Indiana: I Will Never Be Happy Again), a Christmas story, several picture books (which I illustrated myself) featuring the Doodle Bugs from Outer Space, a play about Laura Ingalls Wilder’s sister entitled Blindness Strikes Mary, a series of prison mysteries, a collection of short stories featuring me as the main character (an internationally famous rock star detective), and a partially finished novel about Vietnam. I was also an excellent speller from a very early age.

In 2000, I started writing full-time, and I haven’t stopped… I’ve written nine books (#9 will be out Oct 4, 2016), and when I’m not working on the tenth, I’m writing the screenplay for All the Bright Places.

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