Not a fanI ended up lowering my rating drastically because I felt like it did a similar thing to thirteen reasons why it was kind-of glamorizing mental illness and there was no hopeful message.
All the Bright Places (2014)
Others: Leaning positive 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.
- ISBN:
- 9780241395967
- Length:
- 416 pages
Genres: romance, young adult
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Loved itI loved this book so much you can tell here's all my favorite parts this book I read on a road trip to the set of The Walking Dead and the Vampire Diaries by the way it was really enjoyable such a good book to read on a road trip for some reason because it just kept me wanting to know more
Loved itthis book made me cry so much I loved it made me feel something I can't stop thinking about it for a while after i read it
Not a fanI found the characters to be so dramatic that it was just hard for me to read like I didn't I couldn't get into it at all
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Loved itThis book was beautiful. I absolutely loved it.
Loved itall the right places has been really controversial but I really loved it because it almost seemed autobiographical and after reading a little bit more about Jennifer nian I feel like she really injected the book with her own depiction and her own subjective experience of grief in her own life I thought it was a really beautiful portrayal of mental illness and of grief