All the Bright Places
by Jennifer Niven
The Fault in Our Stars meets Eleanor and Park in
this exhilarating and heart-wrenching love story about a girl who learns to
live from a boy who intends to die.
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Elle
Fanning!
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.
This is an intense, gripping novel perfect for
fans of Jay Asher, Rainbow Rowell, John Green, Gayle Forman, and Jenny Downham
from a talented new voice in YA, Jennifer Niven.
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By now you’ve read the synopsis and you have a
general idea what this story is about.
But what you don’t know is that this book with the beautiful cover is
truly
a ONE OF A KIND reading
experience. It is really hard to write
this review without giving too much away, because this book needs to be read
without any spoilers. So with that being
said, I am going to be really vague and just tell you my general overall
thoughts on this amazing book.
As I read, Violet and Finch became personal to
me. I wanted them to go far in
life. I wanted them to succeed. I wanted
them to have a Happily Ever After – whatever that could have been. I just wanted them happy.
The characters in this book could be just about
anyone on this great place called Earth.
The problems are ones that are unfortunately dealt with daily with a lot
of people.
The parents in this story are human. They make mistakes. Sadly one set of parents was truly
disconnected from what was really right in front of them. If they just would have looked and listened
maybe this story would have turned out differently. The signs were there. But as in real life, those signs are ignored
and denied. The problems happening in
this story happen. Every. Single. Day.
This book is a MUST READ for any teenager, parent, teacher, counselor – okay, EVERYONE. This book will make you laugh. This book will make you cry – and not just
little tears. BIG FAT TEARS that don’t
stop. But above all, this book will make
you THINK. Read this book and afterward,
give a loved one a hug. Talk to them and
really listen to what they have to say.
I loved All the Bright Places so much that it is
now on my Top 10 Favorite Books of ALL
TIME. It was beautifully written and captivated me
from the very first page. This book
touched my heart like no other and it is a story that will stay with me for
quite some time.
A special thanks to the publisher for providing
me with an ARC of this spectacular book.
I loved it so much, I bought another copy.
Really, this book deserves more than 5 stars. If I could, I would give it 10 - it's just that good!
Jennifer Niven
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 eight books (two of those are forthcoming), and
when I'm not working on the ninth, I'm contributing to my web magazine, Germ
(www.germmagazine.com), thinking up new books, and dabbling in TV. I am always
writing.
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