This book is for anyone who enjoys a lovely story, who has ever gone through depression, or has had a loved one go through depression. It’s my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting… just to make it simple for me and also for them”.Īll The Bright Places is a book that will stay with you, it is a book that people want to talk about and should talk about. “The fact is, I was sick, but not in an easily explained flu kind of way. This is the first young adult novel that accurately explains the true feeling people with poor mental health are dealing with. “She sighs, and I’ve never heard anything like it. Instead of telling the reader how a character feels, Niven is able to express the emotions which grip at your lungs and burn the back of your mind and throat. This book beautifully illustrates what grief is and what power a stigma has. Together these teens work through all the complicated emotions which make life what it is, yet when you believe they are reaching a healing place, their lives spiral out once more. Finch is trying to do anything that keeps him awake and present in the moment.

Violet is trying to understand the meaning of being a survivor while grieving for her sister.

The story is simple: It’s about a girl and a boy, yet all isn’t what it appears to be. Luckily, Jennifer Niven has finally written the book we all need. I wish I read All the Bright Places when I was 15 or when I was at university.

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