All the Bright Places

I really really loved it. It is heart breaking story of theodore finch and violet markey.The story starts where finch is on the bell tower attempting to suicide and violet comes their and saves his life and becomes the hero of the school after this, even though violet is also willing to kill herself due to death of her sister Eleanor one year back, both violet and fich get into a school project being a partner and they wander different amazing places across indiana and gradually violet learns to live from the boy who wants to die, both are in love and wandering but finch is not well with his suicide attempts and one day they found swollen death body of finch in lake and violet shatters again but she completes the project with the traces of finch.

Wow, what can I say? One of my children is a dyslexic, reluctant reader and there were actual fights in the house over this book. Unimaginable.The children ended up reading it together (and they really don't get on) on a tour of Scotland. Reading it page by page and agreeing when to turn. Many of the country's most beautiful lochs and mountains were missed owing to the fact that they refused exit the campervan until they had finished it.They were transfixed.I decided to read it, because of the effect it had on them. I was similarly gripped and for a day or two we went nowhere.You know those books that touch you deeply, and when you have finished takes ages to leave you? It's one of those. It was the best and most memorable part of our holiday, and we traveled 2000 miles in a little van through lochs, mountains and along the most beautiful beaches.Do buy it, along with a box of tissues.

Title - All the Bright PlacesAuthor - Jennifer nivenPages - 378Publisher - @penguinindiaA total 5⭐/5⭐. 📎"A heart-wrenching love story about a girl who learns to live from a boy who intends to die".This one line pretty much sums up the story of the book.I read this book with my guards up, because it's a story about depression (likely to trigger my own),but I don't know how I got so attached to fictional characters that I cried and I don’t know why this book got through to me.For one thing, it doesn’t condescend, it doesn’t sound corny, it doesn’t try too hard..📎Blurb -Popular girl voilet and school freak flinch meet on a ledge of a school tower, both considering ending their lives,one is saved by the other and in the midst of death they connect,Then they are hurled together into a project that makes them wander through their home state of Indiana, finding brightness in places they never expected to see it..📎For me this was a story of voilet's growth in love and life,and especially forgiving herself.Flinch is seen suffering so badly from his mental illness that almost no one seems to understand,buy his few moments of peace with voilet.📎What I loved?The characters,they are definitely going to stay with me,they literally breath out of the book,they feel so real. What happens to them feels real especially flinch's experiences, his thoughts.Also I loved the whole Virginia Woolf tribute.📎What I didn't like?.This would be more of a suggestion,if you are genuinely suffering from depression , have self-harm behaviour or know someone who does,don't get this book according to me, because "Spoiler alert - the protagonist end up doing a suicide"

This novel is actually extremely well written. The premise and the characters could easily have been contrived and cringe-inducing, yet Jennifer Niven manages to tread that line so masterfully that I found myself feeling defensive at even the idea that someone would dismiss it out of hand without first giving it a chance and experiencing the colour and depth within it's pages. HOWEVER. I do not wish to spoil it for those who haven't read it, but the climax of the novel was a huge disappointment as a reader, having done my research I understand why the author made the choices she did, and how it was edited with purpose, but unfortunately it was a poor choice as it created a plot twist rather than fully weaving the issue into the novel as a whole, and the dénouement was tainted with faux catharsis. If you force catharsis, you create further tension. It genuinely took this book from potentially becoming one of my favourite reads, to one I somewhat hesitate to recommend.

Wow! This book is phenomenal. So moving, and told in such a beautiful way. Little nugggets that you read along the way, all come together at the end and become so poignant. I loved everything about this book. I fell in love with Finch after only a few pages.I was sobbing bucketfuls for the last fifth of the book. It pulls at every heartstring because I felt like I knew the characters so well.A truly remarkable book that will stay with me forever. Most definitely in my top 5 ever read.