Book Review: All The Bright Places
Title: All The Bright Places
Goodreads Rating: 4.2/5
Genre: Contemporary YA romance
Personal Rating: 4.5
Short Synopsis:
The story of a girl who learns to live from the boy who wants to die. Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himslef. Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation,when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister's recent death.
When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of bell tower at school, it's unclear who saves whom. As Violet's world grows, Finch's begins to shrink.
Personal Review:
In the book, Finch and Violet take turns narrating their story. The main theme the writer touches are ideas like death, depression, grief, suicide, identity crisis, self esteem issues,anger,heartache and pain. The book is extremely emotional. At the same time, there are happy moments, sunrays in the abyss of darkness. Also, the narration is beautiful. The writing style is absolutely stunning and the words the writer used to display emotions were painfully beautiful.
"It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or small pox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them."
The book has a lot of references to Virgina Woolf and some other reclaimed writers. Also there are heart touching events related to the Plutonian Gravitaional Effect, the wall of thoughts and some other notable places in Indiana that Finch and Violet experience together.
"She is oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium and phosphorous. The same elements that are inside the rest of us, but I can't help thinking she is more than that and she's got other elements going on that noone's ever heard of,ones that make her stand apart from everybody else."
Some may say that the idea of one of the main character being depressed and suicidal and facing issues such as bullying and dysfunctional family and the other suffering from PTSD is stereotypical, which is partly true.The book is similar to John Green's "The fault in our stars" in some aspects but totally different in all others. The essence of the book is actually the awareness it raises about adults delibrately ignoring the signs of mental illness in their child.
Personally, I absolutely adored the writing style and the grasp of the writer over words. The two words that could perfectly describe the book would be "heart-wrenching' and "beautiful".
"The thing I realized is that, it's not what you take, it's what you leave."
By: Ayesha Tariq
Goodreads Rating: 4.2/5
Genre: Contemporary YA romance
Personal Rating: 4.5
Short Synopsis:
The story of a girl who learns to live from the boy who wants to die. Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himslef. Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation,when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister's recent death.
When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of bell tower at school, it's unclear who saves whom. As Violet's world grows, Finch's begins to shrink.
Personal Review:
In the book, Finch and Violet take turns narrating their story. The main theme the writer touches are ideas like death, depression, grief, suicide, identity crisis, self esteem issues,anger,heartache and pain. The book is extremely emotional. At the same time, there are happy moments, sunrays in the abyss of darkness. Also, the narration is beautiful. The writing style is absolutely stunning and the words the writer used to display emotions were painfully beautiful.
"It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or small pox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them."
The book has a lot of references to Virgina Woolf and some other reclaimed writers. Also there are heart touching events related to the Plutonian Gravitaional Effect, the wall of thoughts and some other notable places in Indiana that Finch and Violet experience together.
"She is oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium and phosphorous. The same elements that are inside the rest of us, but I can't help thinking she is more than that and she's got other elements going on that noone's ever heard of,ones that make her stand apart from everybody else."
Some may say that the idea of one of the main character being depressed and suicidal and facing issues such as bullying and dysfunctional family and the other suffering from PTSD is stereotypical, which is partly true.The book is similar to John Green's "The fault in our stars" in some aspects but totally different in all others. The essence of the book is actually the awareness it raises about adults delibrately ignoring the signs of mental illness in their child.
Personally, I absolutely adored the writing style and the grasp of the writer over words. The two words that could perfectly describe the book would be "heart-wrenching' and "beautiful".
"The thing I realized is that, it's not what you take, it's what you leave."
By: Ayesha Tariq
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