All The Bright Places

Book name: All the bright Places

Author: Jennifer Niven

Genre: Young Adult- Contemporary 

Standalone/Series: Standalone

Publishing Date: 1 November 2016

My Rating: ★★★★★

Goodreads Summary:

The Fault in Our Stars meets Eleanor and Park in this exhilarating and heart-wrenching love story about a girl who learns to live from a boy who intends to die.
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Elle Fanning!
 
Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him.
 
Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister’s recent death.
 
When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, it’s unclear who saves whom. And when they pair up on a project to discover the “natural wonders” of their state, both Finch and Violet make more important discoveries: It’s only with Violet that Finch can be himself—a weird, funny, live-out-loud guy who’s not such a freak after all. And it’s only with Finch that Violet can forget to count away the days and start living them. But as Violet’s world grows, Finch’s begins to shrink.
 

I read this book at the beginning of the year and it’s really very hard to express what I feel about this book and the place it has in my heart, to put it all into words.

It revolves around 2 main characters- Violet Markey and Theodore Finch. Both of them are seeing counselors for different reason. Violet’s sister and soul mate had died in a car accident and Finch is suffering from Depression and suicidal thoughts.

This book deals with some very serious issues like suicide and depression and the lesson you get from it is that taking one’s life is a very easy but the tough part is coping with the problems and living.

This book is from dual prospective and we get to hear from both Violet and Finch and both of them have so distinct thoughts, their journeys are completely different and so are their endings.

All of it felt so real and genuine, every bit of it, it felt as if it was coming from the author’s heart and in the end I came to know that it really was. Jennifer Niven had also lost someone very dear to her, and I don’t even want imagine how difficult it would have been for her to write this book and this book has soo many heartbreaking moments, that it will move even the hardest of hearts.

I didn’t want to finish the book, I just couldn’t bring myself to read any further because my heart knew that something very bad was going to happen which would crush my heart into pieces, but still I read it, and if you also get the same feeling while reading it, then don’t stop, Finish it and read it until the end!

I really liked both of the main characters, but finch was my favorite. He is so cute, adorable, funny and just everything that the besetestt boy on earth would be, except that he suffers from a mental illness. He is one of my fictional boyfriends and I always looked forward to his chapters. Here’s a very interesting fact about Finch- He sometimes becomes a different version of himself. He is the same finch inside but he acts differently, dresses differently, speaks differently and does things differently. But I loved all his versions, he is just soooo amazing!

And as for violet, I could relate to her. Not completely, but I could. She is a type of girl, who has friends, but still doesn’t. Who is a part of ‘group’ but still feels alone. And then to take her loneliness and cold, comes finch like an angel and brings brightness and spring in her life.

“No more winter at all. Finch, you brought me spring.”

The side characters in the book were also very well portrayed throughout the book. They did not just exist, but had their views and the parents also interfered in their children’s life. In most books the parents are just there but they don’t have a say but in this book they did and that is one of the reasons why it felt so real.

WARNING: this book will break your heart and it will not be able to heal. Ever again! You’ll cry and believe me it will be worth it. Just read it until the very end and it will stay with you always!

Apart from the heart wrenching moments there were many positive parts as well and one of them was of exploration- travel to strange places near you, explore them, document your experience and leave something behind. But the places they visited were not where usually people go on weekends. They were different and a bit quirky and that made me realize that I haven’t explored anything around me. It made me feel that I am so limited and that I need to take a look at things around me, not the big ones, but the small ones!

I recommend this book to everyone because this book will change you and you need that change of perception, how you see things. Everyone in this world is soo judgmental that we don’t show our real self to people, in fear of being judged and being given ‘tags’. We say that the people who commit suicide are cowards, but taking one’s life may be the hardest thing one can do! Is suicide actually suicide by one’s own will or murder by the society?! This book was soo deep and it has the power to change the world and make it a better place to live in!

Just gooo and read it if you haven’t already! And if you have read it then what change did it bring in you? What life lesson did you learn from it? And last but not the least, Do you like reading cry worthy books even when you know they will break your heart?

The Sun is also a star: Bookchat

Hii! I am sure all of you have now read ‘The sun is also a star’ but if not then don’t go further because it’s going to be very spoilery. If you want to check my non-spoilery review then see my previous post or click Here.  So byeee non-spoilery buddies!

My Ratings: ★★★★★

I loved this book soo much and that won’t be enough to explain for what I feel about it. The whole concept of falling in love and scientifically proving it was just so amazing and it all was very new to me because I haven’t heard of any experiments regarding love but in the book it actually worked and I was wishing for it to work because Natasha and Daniel were Meant-to-be and the idea of them not loving each other was so horrifying to me.

I liked both of them a lot. They both were very different personalities but the way they were brought to life by Nicola Yoon was so exceptionally good that you have to love them. You just can’t not love them!

Another one of my favorite character was Irene. Though there is no background about her story but the future insight that we get in the end is just soo good and before reading that I was so desperate to know Irene’s story- if she got Natasha’s message or not, did she commit suicide, what happened to her?! And getting the answers to these questions was so satisfying. I was soo speculated by the idea that everyone has a story that we know nothing about and all these stories affect each other in some way or the other and when you start thinking more deeply about this, relating it to people you know, then there are just endless possibilities and questions! We ought to be good to people because we don’t know what they are going through and if they are bad then what made them be like that. We are all humans and we all have flaws and we have to understand it! This book was just so brilliant; I am actually falling short of words to describe it.

The best part for me in the book was its Epilogue. It made me cry especially the ending moment when Irene sees Natasha and goes to her, and Natasha says that she remembers her, then Daniel taking Natasha’s name and then the last words of the book,- ‘Daniel, Daniel.’ This moment was soooo heart wrenching. It was their destiny to be together. They were MEANT-TO-BE!

Another idea I can never get through was the idea of Multiverses, that there is a different universe, many different universes in fact where our life is different, and then the idea of how many different possibilities to this are hits you and you feel lost, lost in this universe of yours where you are currently living. We are all humans and maybe it’s our minds which want to grow out of the misery we are living in now that the smallest idea of such a thing is so appealing to us. The concept of Dark matter was also very fascinating to me and the way Daniel put it forward that Dark matter was nothing but love is just out of this world. It was at that moment that I actually fell in love with him. Such philosophical thoughts of Daniel were the best answers to Natasha’s scientific thoughts and Natasha and Daniel were just PERFECT!

I would love to know your thoughts about this book and your favorite moments of Natasha and Daniel and what you think about the ideas of Multiverses and Dark Matter.☺

The Sun Is Also a Star

the sun is also a star by nicola yoon

Book name: The Sun is also a Star

Author: Nicola Yoon

Genre: Young Adult- Contemporary 

Standalone/Series: Standalone

Publishing Date: 1 November 2016

My Rating: ★★★★★
Goodreads

Goodreads Summary:

Natasha: I’m a girl who believes in science and facts. Not fate. Not destiny. Or dreams that will never come true. I’m definitely not the kind of girl who meets a cute boy on a crowded New York City street and falls in love with him. Not when my family is twelve hours away from being deported to Jamaica. Falling in love with him won’t be my story.

Daniel: I’ve always been the good son, the good student, living up to my parents’ high expectations. Never the poet. Or the dreamer. But when I see her, I forget about all that. Something about Natasha makes me think that fate has something much more extraordinary in store—for both of us.

The Universe: Every moment in our lives has brought us to this single moment. A million futures lie before us. Which one will come true?

This book left me speechless and after completing it I just sat there staring at the wall, smiling, and wondering if everything is already written somewhere-what happened, what is happening, and what will happen. If there is actually something called destiny. This book made me want to believe in love and experience it. Nicola Yoon is definitely one of my favorite authors now and I am looking forward to reading ‘Everything Everything’ by her too. It was a really short read because it highlights the happenings of only the one day Natasha and Daniel meet and their lives change forever, and everything goes really fast.

 I could strongly relate with the female protagonist of the story- Natasha. She is a science geek and doesn't believe in philosophy or love and all, but Daniel (the male protagonist) made her. There is a line in the book that reads-

“I know there’s no such thing as meant-to-be, and yet here I am wondering if maybe I've been wrong.”

It makes you wonder the same thing as well

Daniel is my bae. He is so outgoing and such a great dreamer. He is lovely, handsome, sexy, just everything. He wants to flow with the wind and see what life has in store for him. I seriously wonder why the perfect boys are found only in books?! I love him a lot and he is also one of my book boyfriends now.

Both the main characters have distinct voices and that is something I love about this book a lot. Their thoughts don’t mingle at all and it was such a tragically beautiful journey to see them get together. This book got my hopes high a lot but at the same time remained down to earth and bought everything back to reality and the world we are actually living in and I think this is what a contemporary is all about.

One very interesting thing about this book is that it tells a small history, fact or story about everything/every person they meet who made their day go the way it did. These small facts and stories were what I actually looked for in the whole book (give or take).

There were so many quotes and lines in this book that left a never-ending impact on me. This book changed me, I don’t know in what way, all I know is that I am not the same person I was before reading it.

Initially I thought if this book was just so famous because of its beautiful and photogenic cover and believe me, I am ashamed of that thought. If you also have the same doubt then believe me, you’re wrong. If you love contemporary but are looking for something new or you want to try contemporary then this is book is a must read!

If my thoughts made you want to read the book then I was successful. Now when you've read the book then come back again for the book chat.