Casey Writes It Down: All The Bright Places by Jennifer Niven review|Zoella Book Club

All The Bright Places is a New York Times bestseller. This brilliant novel by Jennifer Nelvin has won Goodreads Choice Awards Best Young Adult Fiction 2015 (I'm not surprised) and is also being made into a movie in 2017 starring Elle Fanning.

Theodore Finch wants to take his own life. 'Im broken, and no one can fix it'. Violet Markey is devastated by her sisters death. 'In that instant we went ploughing through the guardrail, my words died too'. They meet on the ledge of the school bell tower and so their story begins. It's only together they can be themselves. 'I send a message to Violet: "You are all the colours in one, at full brightness". "You're so weird Finch, but that's the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me". But as Violet's world grows, Finch's begins to sink. How far will Violet go to save the boy she has come to love?

All I can say is WOW! This book was really amazing! It has to be by far my favourite book I've read! I have never been so in love with a book, I mean the only way I can tell you how amazing this book is would be to actually tell you to read the book. Drop everything and read this book.
This book made me feel every emotion; happiness, anger, fear, sympathy etc. *Spoiler ahead* I was so disappointed because when I seen prom mention in the book, I instantly imagined them going together and what they would be wearing. But then when Finch died, I was heartbroken to realise that wouldn't happen. I really fell in love with Finch. Every time he would become sad and go into his 'black moods' my heart would break. Although I had a different ending planned out myself, I am happy the book didn't have a stereotypical happy ending. Don't let this turn you off reading it, you will not regret reading this book.
When I was reading the blurb on Goodreads, They described the book as 'The Fault In Our Stars meets Eleanor and Park'. Having read both these books and loving them, I can honestly say I think this book is as good as or even better than those two books. I loved that the book was told in a 2 people narrative, this made me connect more with both characters and experience the story from two perspectives. The book explored many topics such as death and coping with death, mental illness and love. I really admire a book when mental illness is discussed because it makes me feel more connected and more attached to the character.

Jennifer Niven is such an amazing writer and I can't wait to read her new book 'Holding Up The Universe'! I thought I would include this review as part of Zoellas book club with WHSmith. I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the books in the club!