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All the Bright Places
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The New York Times bestselling love story about two teens who find each other while standing on the edge.
Theodore Finch is fascinated by death. Every day he thinks of ways he might kill himself, but every day he also searches for--and manages to find--something to keep him here, and alive, and awake. Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her small 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--six stories above the ground-- it's unclear who saves whom. Soon it's only with Violet that Finch can be himself. 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. . . . "A do-not-miss for fans of Eleanor & Park and The Fault in Our Stars, and basically anyone who can breathe." --Justine Magazine "At the heart--a big one--of All the Bright Places lies a charming love story about this unlikely and endearing pair of broken teenagers." --The New York Times Book Review "A heart-rending, stylish love story." --The Wall Street Journal "A complex love story that will bring all the feels." --Seventeen Magazine "Impressively layered, lived-in, and real." --Buzzfeed
The New York Times bestselling love story about two teens who find each other while standing on the edge.
Theodore Finch is fascinated by death. Every day he thinks of ways he might kill himself, but every day he also searches for--and manages to find--something to keep him here, and alive, and awake. Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her small 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--six stories above the ground-- it's unclear who saves whom. Soon it's only with Violet that Finch can be himself. 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. . . . "A do-not-miss for fans of Eleanor & Park and The Fault in Our Stars, and basically anyone who can breathe." --Justine Magazine "At the heart--a big one--of All the Bright Places lies a charming love story about this unlikely and endearing pair of broken teenagers." --The New York Times Book Review "A heart-rending, stylish love story." --The Wall Street Journal "A complex love story that will bring all the feels." --Seventeen Magazine "Impressively layered, lived-in, and real." --Buzzfeed
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This book kinda wrecked me. I put off finishing it because I saw what was going to happen and just couldn't face it. But I finished and after an ugly cry, I can say I loved it.
This book is mainly of the genre YA, with tid-bits of romance and contemporary. It is similar to THE FAULT IN OUR STARS. It's story of a girl who learns to live from a boy who wants to die.
The plot is good but honestly saying there were some scenes where there was too much of description which I think, wasn't needed. I liked the book overall but I got bored and skipped pages. There's a shocking plot twists at the end which will break your heart.
I recommend this book to everyone who is/was in depression, this book will remind you of what it feels like to be alive.
The plot is good but honestly saying there were some scenes where there was too much of description which I think, wasn't needed. I liked the book overall but I got bored and skipped pages. There's a shocking plot twists at the end which will break your heart.
I recommend this book to everyone who is/was in depression, this book will remind you of what it feels like to be alive.
It made my heart so heavy, I won't be surprised if I drown in the beautifully tragic world of violet and finch.
This book snuck up on me. I really didn't start enjoying it until at least halfway through. I didn't like half the main characters, and when that happens it's hard to enjoy the book at all. But then something changed. Either the way I saw the characters changed or the characters changed, because I ended up really feeling like this book was meaningful and I'm glad I read it.
Spoilers below.
The plot of this book is that Violet Markey is sad and on the verge of suicide because her sister died in a car accident the previous spring but she didn't. She feels inadequate and it feels unfair that she survived. She's wondering why she survived, especially since she doesn't feel special or important. I understood that feeling and I understood Violet. Finch was a little more difficult. At the end of the book, it comes out that Finch is probably bipolar and/or manic depressive, which makes a lot of sense. But at the beginning of the book, he's trying on different personalities and I didn't like most of them or the fact that he was trying them on. I get it now, but at the time it just rubbed me the wrong way.
Violet and Finch meet because they're both up in a bell tower waiting to jump off. They both help each other not to jump. But what's saddest about this book is that ultimately, someone jumps and someone doesn't. But this book is good because it tackles what it feels like to be the one left behind. So often, people left behind feel guilty or inadequate, like there was something they could have done or should have done that would have somehow prevented that terrible event from happening. It's just not true. No one can say how any possibility really could have ended up, and blaming yourself for things you can't know isn't healthy or helpful. But I think rarely do books address the fact that it's okay to not be okay, it's okay to deal with lots of emotions (like anger) and it's okay to laugh or to live again. You don't have to stand still like a mausoleum when someone you love passes. And I think this book addressed, too, some of the hypocrisy surrounding suicides. For example, many of the people who tortured Finch by starting rumors about him, bullying him, beating him up, showed up to his funeral and cried over him. Violet and other characters liken them to hired, professional mourners. Not a lick of sincerity. People wrote on a shrine for him at school, but Violet gets angry because none of them really knew him or cared. I think that's very true. I think that when something this shocking happens, people come out of the woodwork but it's rarely because they genuinely cared about the person but more because a suicide makes them feel vulnerable and they have to do something about it.
Anyhow, I'm glad I stuck it out with this book. It turned out to be worth it. I'd definitely recommend it.
Spoilers below.
The plot of this book is that Violet Markey is sad and on the verge of suicide because her sister died in a car accident the previous spring but she didn't. She feels inadequate and it feels unfair that she survived. She's wondering why she survived, especially since she doesn't feel special or important. I understood that feeling and I understood Violet. Finch was a little more difficult. At the end of the book, it comes out that Finch is probably bipolar and/or manic depressive, which makes a lot of sense. But at the beginning of the book, he's trying on different personalities and I didn't like most of them or the fact that he was trying them on. I get it now, but at the time it just rubbed me the wrong way.
Violet and Finch meet because they're both up in a bell tower waiting to jump off. They both help each other not to jump. But what's saddest about this book is that ultimately, someone jumps and someone doesn't. But this book is good because it tackles what it feels like to be the one left behind. So often, people left behind feel guilty or inadequate, like there was something they could have done or should have done that would have somehow prevented that terrible event from happening. It's just not true. No one can say how any possibility really could have ended up, and blaming yourself for things you can't know isn't healthy or helpful. But I think rarely do books address the fact that it's okay to not be okay, it's okay to deal with lots of emotions (like anger) and it's okay to laugh or to live again. You don't have to stand still like a mausoleum when someone you love passes. And I think this book addressed, too, some of the hypocrisy surrounding suicides. For example, many of the people who tortured Finch by starting rumors about him, bullying him, beating him up, showed up to his funeral and cried over him. Violet and other characters liken them to hired, professional mourners. Not a lick of sincerity. People wrote on a shrine for him at school, but Violet gets angry because none of them really knew him or cared. I think that's very true. I think that when something this shocking happens, people come out of the woodwork but it's rarely because they genuinely cared about the person but more because a suicide makes them feel vulnerable and they have to do something about it.
Anyhow, I'm glad I stuck it out with this book. It turned out to be worth it. I'd definitely recommend it.
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