All the Bright Places – Jennifer Niven
Read March 20 - Library
I’ll take one squished heart to go
please because this book was full-on and heart-wrenching. Also, if it wasn’t
obvious from the blurb massive content warning for suicide mentions. It’s
detailed stuff. Well researched but definitely triggering. There’s also brief
mentions of bulimia and self-harm. The characters are so well-written, and I
love that their relationship was slow burn, not instalove. I loved their growth
over the course of the book, especially Violet. I really enjoyed reading about
their wanderings and I hope that they were real places. I wish we’d had more of
Violet’s new project coming to fruition in the actual book. The last third of
the book was traumatic but I loved the continuing theme of growth.
I understand that there is a film adaptation of this book. I couldn't get past the start and Violet and Finch's meeting being changed so much. How they meet is a massive plot point of the book and unless that scene appears later the movie is naturally not going to be the same. But even if it does the fact that they've already met would diminish it.
5/5 stars
Stef Out x
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