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All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
5.0
challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-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

Please please please, if you read this book, check the trigger warnings. This book focuses heavily on death, suicide, and mental illness in general. That said, the author handled it well and represented it beautifully. People suffering don't always present that way. Especially high school kids trying to fit in or find themselves. This was a beautiful story about a first love -a real love- between a girl who was grieving and not living and a boy who was fascinated by suicide and how to die by your own terms. All the while, no one knew his true thoughts.

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