Hello everyone and welcome again !! This is my second English book review ..
You know guys, it’s summer vacation and I planned to read as much as I can because it’s one of my goals in 2018, However, there are two problems , first one is that I still don’t have an English viewers which might fizzle me out but I’ll post anyway , second one is my sleeping is messed up which’s so bad to me because I’m a morning person, I woke up at 4:17 am and it was about to sunset and I told myself to stop procrastinating, stop screwing around blah blah blah, and what are you waiting for, Raghad ? take a full advantage of it and I did.
Assalamualaikum.
Welcome to another review with another book.
Summary :
Description :
The story of a girl who learns to live from a boy who wants to die
It’s about a tow main teenagers characters, Theodore Finch and Violet Markey who want to escape from their small Indiana town.
Violet is a popular girl who’s secretly dealing with survivor’s remorse, and Finch is a boy obsessed with death, labeled a freak by other students. Fate brought the two together when both climbed the bell tower at school at the same time, planning to jump off the ledge. Finch is surprised that Violet is up there because she’s a popular school cheerleader. But Violet has been dealing with the death of her sister, Eleanor, for which she feels responsible. Eleanor died in a car accident, and Violet hasn’t been in a car since. She quit the student council, then cheerleading, and now cares about absolutely nothing. On the ledge, Finch talks Violet down, and Violet returns the favor.
As for Finch, he is depressed and experiences near-constant thoughts of suicide. Morbidly, he writes out fun facts about other people’s suicides in his journal. He initiates a partnership between himself and Violet for a school project in which they will explore their home state of Indiana together. Later at home, Finch thinks about Violet, looking her up on Facebook, reading about her sister’s accident (which he had forgotten) and chatting online with her. Finch’s family does not understand his depression, so he feels isolated.
For their project, Finch and Violet travel around their state to see important or unusual sites. They see homemade roller coasters, the highest hill in Indiana, and more. The important thing doesn’t seem to be the sites themselves, but what the wandering begins to mean for both of them—especially Violet. The two begin a romantic relationship and fall in love. Eventually, Finch becomes a kind of mentor and counselor for Violet. He helps her begin to talk about her sister’s death, which her parents have not managed to do. He inspires her to travel in a car again and begin writing again, things she had avoided for nine months. As a result, Violet begins to heal.
Finch, however, is getting worse. He suffers from an undiagnosed bipolar disorder and therefore deals with very high highs and very low lows. His behavior demonstrates the characteristic manic periods of impulsive excitability as well as the lethargic, pointless mindset during the depressive periods. He is also beaten by his father and bullied at school. The one shining spot in his life is his blossoming relationship with Violet.
I don’t wanna spoil it but the ending of their relationship was unexpectable
Pages:: 378 pages
Genre: a young adult novel/fiction
Published: January 6, 2015
About the author :
– She’s Jennifer Niven , an American novelist.
– “All the bright places” was her first book for young adult readers.
– she has three nonfiction books.
– born in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
– You can check Her website if you want!
My review :
I haven’t really enjoyed reading English books before, I liked the details, how it makes me feel, their thoughts and how the author shows me what’s happened in each side, I was about to cry in the end !!
How many times did it take me to finish it? a week and a half
Do I recommend it? yes
My rating on Goodreads :
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Quotes :
He smiles out at the ugly trees and the ugly farmland and the ugly kids as if he can see Oz. As if he can really, truly see the beauty that’s there. In that moment I wish I could see it through his eyes. I wish he had glasses to give me
I know life well enough to know you can’t count on things staying around or standing still, no matter how much you want them to. You can’t stop people from dying. You can’t stop them from going away. You can’t stop yourself from going away either. I know myself well enough to know that no one else can keep you awake or keep you from sleeping
Raghad Al-Ghamdi
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