Today I am going to be posting my review of All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven. In my opinion, this is a five-star book and I recommend it to absolutely everybody. This book made me bawl like a baby and even though I read it in late 2015, I still haven't fully recovered.
The subtitle of this book is, "The story of a girl who learns to live from a boy who wants to die," which foreshadows just how devastatingly beautiful this book is.Violet is popular and pretty but feeling vastly empty, [Theodore] Finch is her social opposite- Rather than feeling empty he is filled with an overwhelming suicidal fantasy and planning his perfect escape from the world- Until he falls in love with Violet and suddenly his two conflicting obsessions create a deeper inner turmoil which seemingly consumes him.
This story does not have a happy ending at all, which is refreshingly un-YA and while the conclusion left me a sobbing mess, it is haunting, poetic, beautiful, devastating and, for me, unsettlingly relatable. I suppose I identify with Finch in ways I would prefer not to admit, but All the Bright Places forces me to confront my own dark places, the little voice in my mind that pushes me towards the bell-tower ledge; and ultimately makes me wonder where the point of no return might lie.
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay somebody sounds similar to this. Really interesting read..
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