It uses alternating first-person narratives to depict the relationship between Finch and Violet, two teenagers who desperately want to escape their small Indiana town. All the Bright Places will pull you in and won’t let you go again, even long after you turned the final page – a must-read, to share with friends.Ĭontent suitable to older readers, with frequent use of swearing. All the Bright Places is the New York Times best-selling young adult novel by Jennifer Niven.

The ebb and flow of their moods, from jubilant to content to depressed and angry, is beautifully reflected by their attempts to understand and help each other. The story offers alternating accounts from Finch’s and Violet’s perspectives and provides a poignant insight into their individual mental health issues as well as how each person impacts the other’s life. Finch taught me that theres beauty in the most unexpected of places, and that there are. Each has serious issues that shape their world as they know it, but could love conquer all in the end?Īll the Bright Places is a remarkable story of friendship, love, and dealing with suffering. He dreamt of all the beauty in the world and he made it come to life. They grow closer and closer and realise it’s the other who can save them from themselves. First working on a school project, exploring the wonders the state of Indiana has to offer through their ‘wanderings’. Theo and Violet start to spend more and more time together.

But a chance meeting on the ledge of their school’s bell tower, an expression of their suicidal thoughts, gives both a new lease of life. Theodore Finch and Violet Markey appear to be unlikely friends.

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