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All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven

992 reviews

stephfauteux's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective 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: Complicated

Content Warnings

oroukia's review against another edition

5.0

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Content Warnings

catching5tars's review against another edition

4.5

challenging emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Content Warnings

soph_luu12's review against another edition

3.5

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Content Warnings

kristinak's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Content Warnings

eurekareads's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous emotional funny inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

"Theodore Finch, in search of the great manifesto"

I think one of the saddest trope is not unrequited love or one sided love, it’s not right person wrong time or wrong person at a right time. Personally, I think it is finding the right person but having so little time together. And I’m not talking about breakups, I’m talking about the death of our loved ones. And how tragic it is, to meet someone at a perfect, to experience that kind of love only for it to be taken away.

All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven is about the story of a boy named Finch, who’s fascinated with the idea of death but every day, he wakes up and he finds a reason to stay alive. And the girl, Violet Markey who lives for the future, counting the days until their graduation when she can finally escape their hometown and hopefully, escape the grief and regrets that she have because of her sister’s death. One day, they found each other standing on the ledge of the bell tower and it is unclear whether Finch saved Violet or the other way around but I like to think that both saved each other. I appreciated Finch’s honesty about his suffering. Although there are times when I felt like mental illness is being romanticized. But other than that, I really got something out of this book like the stigma that surrounds the people who committed suicide.

I think there are several books out there that have more accurate representation of mental illness but this book actually made me feel something. I didn’t experience this pain while reading other contemporary books with the same topic and I think Jennifer Niven painted a sad, beautiful and tragic portrait of love and loss.

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