✨Book : All The Bright Places
✨Author : Jennifer Niven
✨Genre : YA, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction
✨Pages : 367
✨Publication: 2015, Penguin Publishers
✨Format : paperback

4.7 🌟/5

Blogpost by Dhanu

TW: Suicides, depression, anxiety, teenage drama, psychological traumas

“Sometimes, Ultraviolet, things feel true to us even if they’re not.”

This is the story of Violet Markey and Theodore Finch, two teens who met on the brink of their school tower to commit suicide but ended up saving each other. This narrative, like other stories, is filled with teenage dramas, love, heartbreaks, and adventure-seeking characters.

Both protagonists have had psychological traumas at some point in their life. Finch has been depressed as a result of their parents’ divorce and projects himself as a strong-willed, well-known tough guy on campus. Violet, on the other hand, has actually got a new life following the tragic accident that claimed the life of her older sister, Eleanor Markey, and she has taken a sabbatical from her relationship with the famed handsome guy, Ryan Cross.

It is a privilege to have someone who can pull us back together while we are falling apart. It is indeed hilarious to do it to ourselves if you don’t want to get hurt by the same person in future (just in case). Likewise, despite his own psychological sabotage, Finch granted Violet optimistic and adventurous hope for the life ahead of her.

“And then he met Death like an old friend, and walked happily with him, and, equals, they departed this world,” J.K. Rowling said in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. And at this point that I would like to point out that the unnatural ones are never the genuine solution to your quest.

The entire setting of the novel revolves around Indiana. The characters of the novel have a firm grasp of where they stand and move wisely. The language of this novel is beginner-friendly yet exquisite and precise. The visual representation of the story is elegantly portrayed on the cover of the book.

This book will be your treat for excitement obviously with mentioned trigger warnings because happiness comes with a price! I hope my fellow readers find this book enthralling as much as I had while reading.

Happy Reading!

PS: I wanted to clarify that some (even on the front cover, ugh) have been comparing this novel with John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, but to my concern both the novels are having their way of projecting the settings and circumstances. TFIOS is an incompatible work which cannot be compared with All the Bright Places. Both have their own uniqueness.