A review by rhookpietsa
We Are All Made of Molecules by Susin Nielsen

5.0

I expected this to be a predictable story that I had read before, with a stereotypical nerd and his beautiful, yet dumb counterpart. I was pleasantly surprised when this was not the case.
I didn't expect this book to be so dark, but I was okay with that. The subjects were presented in a well crafted manner, and it wasn't centralized around all the horrible things the world has to offer. Even though the universe hasn't treated any of the characters ideally, an optimistic look upon it is still held with all the characters. This concept has been repeated to me over and over again over the years, however, this book showed me this theme in a memorable manner.

Spoiler

The ending was my only issue, and it wasn't that much of a big deal. It lost some of its realisticness when all of those students banded together for the Protection Squad so peacefully. I mean, if such a squad were to form in a school against the main bully, then some radical members of the Protection Squad would go rouge and attack the bully himself, making it a less idealistic group. Perhaps that'll happen after the book ends. Or maybe the group will have a more optimistic ending that involves the group just morphing into an anti-bullying group instead of a mere anti-Jared group. I don't know which ending I'll believe in. The latter is the one I want to believe in, but I feel like the former would be more realistic.

I love this book a lot.