Reviews

All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven

ambergreig's review

adventurous challenging dark hopeful informative sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

4.5

jalger214's review

1.0

Honestly this is one of the very few times where the movie was better than the book. There are so many unrealistic John Green wannabe characteristics of this book and the characters and a terrible—to the point of being almost dangerous—romanticization of mental illness. I was so disappointed in this one.

manaradastra's review

5.0

I haven't felt this way about a book in a long time.

olivereadingnook's review

1.0

I didn't enjoy this nearly as much as I thought I would. I didn't like the characters, I didn't connect with them, and so I struggled to care for them. I didn't like the way certain aspects of the book was written, it seemed like the whole thing was just about everyone being depressed rather than their characters being more than their depression. I wanted to see more things being overcome. I didn't feel any spark or connection between Violet and Finch, maybe because I just didn't care for their characters. It just seemed like a bit of a copycat of The Fault In Our Stars. I genuinely just found the whole thing a bit boring.

red_headed_book_slut's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

If you're not emotionally stable don't read this. Its been 3 days and I'm still broken. Its so well written and you become so attached to the characters!!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Suicide, and Suicidal thoughts

rusty_grapes's review

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

this book is so sad but so beautiful please read it’s so worth it

ilaiza_aviles's review

5.0

I don’t think I have had a book make me cry as much as this one. I had a hard time finishing it, it tugged at my heart strings like nothing before. I loved it so much! The two perspectives of these characters was beautifully portrayed.

yu_1hng's review

emotional

3.75

brittmohler's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

kelseybee17's review

5.0

Before this book, and according to my goodreads bookshelves (which I've kept since probably before 7th grade), I've read 665 books. Out of those books, only 57 are on my favorites shelf. And out of those books, I can narrow it down to my favorites of all of my favorites, which would be about 14 books. That's just over 2% of all the books I've read since before middle school (I'm a sophomore in college now).

All The Bright Places has made it into the top fifteen.

I just wanted to put that into perspective because there really aren't any words I can say that will do this book justice. You'll just have to read it to understand what I saw myself.