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4.01 AVERAGE
4.01 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This story displays grief and battling one’s own mind in such incredible and beautiful ways. The inescapability of internal conflicts is well-written and agonizing to bear witness to. The main characters are very likable and make the book all the more difficult, knowing the imperfections of their lives. They are real and honest, and Niven creates an emotional text, reflecting on the impact of actions and blame one feels when tragedy occurs.
Pretty good, I enjoyed reading it and got invested in the story. The ending is definitely a bit heartbreaking but resolves well in the end. Definitely a bit corny and a little predictable but not bad over all.
I’m lost as to how this book is a Goodreads choice winner, considering the major mishandling of mental illness that is everywhere.
Huge trigger warnings: Abuse, suicide, death, depression
(Just thought I’d, you know, warn you, before going into this without being aware of the massive trigger warnings that somehow were not made clear at the beginning of this book.)
All The Bright Places follows two characters. A boy, Theodore Finch, and a girl, Violet Markey. Theodore is bipolar and constantly thinks about suicide, while Violet is mourning the death of her older sister. From there, the plot kind of disappears, oh wait, there is none.
It felt as if the author was trying to write a cute love story surrounding *??* mental illness, but instead ended up with a mishandled plot-less love story between two protagonists that have no personality.
Not to mention that Finch’s bipolar disorder was handled as a ‘quirk’ or something that made him interesting and cool. Mental illness definitely isn’t something to joke about, nor is it something to treat as an admirable trait. Everyone around Finch would neglect the obvious issue, instead laughing and joking with him about the different versions of himself.
Mental illness, on top of everything else, was romanticized in this book. Violet would look at the things clearly not okay with Finch, and instead of trying to help him she would think things like this: "I feel jealous of his brain. In this moment, mind feels so ordinary."
??? This is not okay?? The fact that this book is so well loved is saddening to me. I hate that the representation of mental illness was portrayed through two dimensional characters, that it was treated like a joke.
The cherry on top for me was reading the authors note at the end. I almost lost it when seeing the words-
“I wanted to write something edgy”
-at the back of this book. If this isn’t proof enough that Jennifer Niven has done minimal research into mental illness and handles it like a joke, I don’t know what else to say.
This is not a cute love story, this is a 400 page book that has no plot and a lot of mishandled topics. If you’re asking me, I’d tell you again and again not to waste your time.
Absolutely love this book.………always gets me out of a slump…….. could read it forever
Been reading a lot lately because the pain and exhaustion has been too bad to do much else. This was an excellent book to distract me from all that. Beautifully written, tragic and hopeful.
Красиво написана и засягаща сериозни проблеми. Прочетох я малко късно от всички останали, но това не ми попречи да се насладя на тази спираща дъха история.
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
little cheesy but has beautiful lines and is a bittersweet story that made me feeeeee