Review: All the Bright Places

All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Violet and Finch first meet at the top of the bell tower. Both contemplating suicide. Less than a year ago, Violet's sister was killed in a car crash when they were driving home from a party. Finch is struggling with depression.

I'm always drawn to books told in multiple perspectives and this one drew me right in. I'm a sucker for a good YA story with teen wonderment. It brings me back to a time when I felt I "knew it all" and loved fast & hard.

Theodore Finch is known as "Freak" around his school due to erratic behavior and a short fuse which has caused him now weekly sessions with the school counselor.

Violet feel lost without her sister. Once an aspiring writer, she co-wrote for an online web magazine with her sister. She has lost the drive to write or do much of anything. Her sister was her best friend and now she is trying to figure out where she belongs in a school she is fairly new to from when her family moved from California to Indiana.

Finch and Violet are bound together immediately due to Finch helping her down from the bell tower and saving her from following through with jumping to her death. In order to keep her secret he tells everyone she saved him. Finch later makes sure they are partners for a history project in which they are assigned to "wander Indiana." Find the great natural wonders in their home state.

For fans who enjoyed The Fault within our Stars & 13 Reasons Why.
Unfortunately this book will not be on the LV IMC shelves as it is too mature. I will be donating my copy to the DGS library.

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