Achtung, diese Review könnte indirekt spoilern! Das Buch war wunderschön, ich habe viele „Lieblingsstellen“ markiert und ich habe es regelrecht verschlungen. Komisch ist: ich musste nicht weinen. Eigentlich muss ich bei solchen Büchern immer weinen. Vielleicht habe ich das Ende des Buches viel zu früh schon erahnt und deswegen nicht geweint. Jedenfalls an dieser Stelle eine fette Triggerwarnung bezüglich psychischer Krankheit und Suizid.

Four years ago, I saw this book at a Barnes & Noble and asked my mom if I could get it. She immediately said, "no, absolutely not", and so I put it away, frustrated at the time, but now, I am glad. Thanks to Matt's Little Free Library for giving me the opportunity to read this without buying it. So the thing is that I want to believe the author had good intentions, but I couldn't get past the comments on blackness and girls who are sexually active, among the other things, that bothered me about this book. Violet tells her parents how she went up to the bell tower and they say nothing about that? Why? I asked, "why" throughout reading the whole book because why did some of this get past the editor, or the agent? I don't know for sure. I wanted to like this, but didn't, but I still gave it a chance, and now, it's on to the next read.

My fav quotes: I shut down again. I went blank. One minute I was spinning, and the next minute my mind was dragging itself around in a circle, like an old, arthritic dog trying to lie down. And then I just turned off and went to sleep, but not sleep in the way you do every night. Think a long, dark sleep where you don’t dream at all. I love it. I write to Theodor everyday and explain what has happened in my day. Also I'm bipolar and really getting his struggles.

All the Bright Places is one of those books where you know from the very beginning how it'll end but you don't mind because there is always that tiny possibility that maybe - maybe it won't end that way. It is the story about being different, being there for each other and falling in love. Let's talk about Finch. Finch had me at hello, but I can actually point out the very moment I fell in love with him: [...] I knock one of my own books onto the floor. Reading this I melted. Not even kidding. The story itself is kinda predictable, to be completly honest with you. You just know what's going to happen. However, Finch saved the day, if you ask me. I absolutely adored him, and he definately made up for Violet, who I did not really like. They were cute together, no questions asked, but Theo was the more interesting character. Personally I think Violet felt kind of flat compared to him. However, it is a cute book which one can easily read within one day or so. The writing style is decent, the plot itself deals with an important topic yet manages to make it as easy going as possible. It'll most probably make you cry - or I'm just a whiny little girl, but as I read I am broken. I am a fraud. I am impossible to love I had tears streaming down my face for the rest of the story. The reason why it's only a 4 star book for me is, that personally I thought the last wanderings after the thing happened could have been told in half the amount of pages. I thought this part was way too detailed and started to bore me. However, this novel is definately worth a read.

Wow, the first book that made me cry in a while. I adore both Violet and Finch. Finch for me is magical person...he is so smart and I love his thought and I wish he was real and I wish he had it better and I wish there would be a happy end. Violet is a strong girl and I admire her strength...she lost her closest friend twice and somehow that made her so much stronger. "You saved my life. Why couldn't I save yours?" Violet and Finch are love.

Wow! What a book to start off 2023. This book is funny, sad, devastating, heartwarming and honestly just absolutely brilliantly written. Considering it being about mental health and struggling with thoughts of suicide and grieving lost loved ones, it is still filled with so much joy and life. I instantly fell in love with the adventures, loving relationship that Finch and Violet share throughout the book and loved the character development despite the difficulties they faced. I can see how this book may be a struggle for some people to read, because even though it may be a beautiful but tragic love story, it does involve difficult and deep meaningful (VERY IMPORTANT!) topics. All in all I can only recommend this book to anyone and everyone (pls check TW first). I just hope you learn to love Finch as much as I loved him, because he is one hell of a character, being such a cringe hopeless romantic. But I loved it! And Violet and her absolute growth as a person throughout their story. Favorit lines/quotes: „Coffee drinkers are less likely to commit suicide than non-coffee drinkers.“ - not sure if this is legit, but it wouldn’t even surprise me! „I guess now you know you’re not the only freak.“ - it will all make sense (if you read the book)

The description of mental illness, using “asleep” to describe that sense of nothingness and being lost. The story was bittersweet, I really like the idea of violet learning to live from Theo who wants to die. When I first read it I could really identify myself with Fitch, now and towards the end a hell lot more with violet. It was a good and thoughtful read.

I found All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven to be just okay. As I started reading, I realized I’d read the book before, so the plot wasn’t new to me. At times, it felt a bit boring, and I couldn’t fully connect with one of the characters. However, I did love the book in some ways. The quotes and the overall feeling while reading were comforting. But as the story went on, reality hit hard, especially toward the end, which felt very realistic. It was uncomfortable, but I understand that it’s important because that’s how life really is.

This definitely the best book I have read this year.. Actually ever! It kept me up until 1am dying to know what will happen next. Fitch and Violet have a complicated but "lovely" relationship. Took approx 8 hours to finish but it was all worth it in the end. This is one of the books I know will stick by me forever. My new favourite YA Novel!

To be honest, I expected more. I liked the character of Violet but I feel like Finch was quite difficult to relate to. I also felt like some things weren’t really explained, which bothered me most with his “awake”/“asleep” thing. But that’s me. Maybe my expectations were just too high. Give the book a try if you like, it’s really not bad, but I’ve read better books.

read my complete review here: http://isabellsbooks.blogspot.de/ I read Jennifer Niven's second Young Adult novel Holding Up The Universe before I read this one. This is why All The Bright Places reminded me very much of Holding Up The Universe; it was extremely obvious from the structure and writing style, that these two books were written by the same author. The books have many similarities like the constant change between the male and the female protagonists' point of views. The protagonists in both books also share a tragic backstory and/or mental illness, with which the reader of the book gets confronted very quickly. The rest of both of the books is then about the two protagonists dealing with their issues while getting to know each other better and falling in love with each other. I guess you will always enjoy that book more that you read first out of these two, because the other one will just feel a bit like the same all over again. Throughout the first half of the book I wasn't sure at all whether I actually liked Finch (the male protagonist). His chapters were quite interesting but whenever I imagined him as a real person I thought that I wouldn't find him likeable at all because he was way too clinging. He also sort of reminded me of some rather annoying pupils, which also made it harder for me to sympathise with him. He seemed to try way too hard to get attention and attraction from others, and while that made sense when his illness was explained, it still made it harder for me to connect with him. I just didn't know what to think of him. But at least his chapters were full of his thoughts and I kind of grew on him more throughout the book because he showed so much depth and inside. Violet, the female protagonist, on the other hand, didn't seem to open up at all in her chapters. I found it extremely hard to connect with her on any level because there was no real balance between Finch's part and Violet's part in the book, as it was the case in Holding Up The Universe. Finch's chapters took up 70 to 80% of the book - or at least it felt like that. This is also why it was very hard for me to get an understanding of Violet's character. I always felt like I just got to see her through Finch's rose-tinted glasses but never got to see the "real" Violet - if there even was more to her than I got the impression from her chapters. And I really started to doubt that and wonder whether Violet was actually not that special as a character but just seen as one through Finch's eyes. Finch went on rambling about how extraordinary Violet was a lot, but as a reader I didn't really get that sense of her at all while reading her chapters. She just seemed to be the only girl that was interested in Finch. Violet didn't seem to really open up throughout the whole book and therefore I never felt like I had a clear image of her. And although I also didn't feel like I had a clear image of Finch, I still felt like I knew him better because he offered much more inside to his thoughts (at least in the beginning). As it was also the case in Holding Up The Universe: the two protagonists seemed to be mainly defined through their tragic past and/or mental illness, and that was also what made them special. Finch's character had definitely more to offer than just his illness, but his character had a total personality change in the second half of the book where I completely lost touch with him. The chapters are not as quick as they are in Holding Up The Universe, and that slowed down my reading speed immensely at first. It took me 150 pages to finally get into the book and sort of enjoy it. Beforehand I actually had to force myself through most of the pages. A lot of Finch's thoughts are very philosophical and that takes a while to get used to. But when I did I started to like Finch's overflowing mind. There's a bit of a roadtrip within the book and I wasn't so sure about that at first because I feel like I've read about roadtrips a bit too often in Young Adult books. Nevertheless, I ended up liking that part because I enjoyed the different and rather unique places that were visited. In contrast to how I felt about the romance in Holding Up The Universe, I really liked the one in All The Bright Places. I enjoyed the slow burning of the attraction between Violet and Finch way more than that of Jack and Libby in Holding Up The Universe. I could definitely feel a spark between Violet and Finch but I didn't like it at all that Finch felt like he was only worthy because he was loved by a girl. That problematic message didn't get cleared up throughout the rest of the book. Another point that I enjoyed was the portrayal of the parents of the protagonists. I liked that they played an important role in the story and that they were given quite a lot of space. I didn't like that there seemed to only be idiots besides Violet and Finch. It was portrayed (also in Holding Up The Universe) as if everyone but them is extremely superficial and straight-forward and flat as a character. After reading the two books of Jennifer Niven I also got the undertone that only characters to whom something terrible has happened in the past or who have to deal with a mental illness are deep and interesting characters. I would have very much liked some interesting side characters in this book. On a rather superficial note: I already quite liked the cover of the book before I read it but I could draw a connection between Finch's room and the cover while reading the book, which I found very nice. I always love it when there's a note in the book as to why the title or the cover of the book are like that. Can I recommend the book to you? I'm actually not quite sure. Unlike Holding Up The Universe, this is neither a quick read nor in any way uplifting, but rather the opposite. The whole book is overshadowed by depressive thoughts of suicide and that just puts you down. If you are interested in books that deal with suicidal characters, this might be for you. Because of the fact that I couldn't really connect to the two protagonists, their stories couldn't reach me on an emotional level, so it wasn't even that much of an emotional read for me. I felt a bit gutted in the end but it couldn't touch me in the way that I want tragic stories to touch me. If you already read something sad that pulls you down, I think you should at least be able to get emotional over it and feel something, but unfortunately, the book couldn't make me feel much. There is a definite need for more books that deal with suicide because this topic gets very often silenced - but I'm not sure that this book was really needed. It also felt very hard to rate this book after I finished it, and it still does now. It wasn't a bad book but it also wasn't an extraordinary book like it was and is praised to be. So I would probably not recommend it to you.

Das ist jetzt das dritte Buch in Folge, welches mich sehr traurig machte.😅 'All Die Verdammt Perfekten Tage' ist ein sehr tolles, emotionales Buch!!! 🥲💔 Würde ich vielleicht nicht lesen, wenn es einem selber gerade schlecht geht!!!! Ich fand Theo Finch vom ersten Moment an total sympathisch und klasse. 😊 Seine Art, immer mit ein wenig Witz, oder wie er alles wahrnimmt und sieht (das Jovian-Plutonian gravitational effect). Und vorallem, wie er für Viola da war und sie unterstützt hat, damit es ihr wieder besser geht, obwohl es ihm nicht gut ging. Viola war auch ein toller, liebevoller Charakter. Ich hatte so viele Hoffnungen für beide, dass sie aus dieser Trauer und unglücklich sein raus kommen. Das Ende.. 😭💔 Also das Ende hat mich wieder mega zerstört. Am Anfang hätte ich nicht gedacht, dass mich dieses Buch so mitnehmen wird. Aber das zeigt ja auch, was für ein gutes Buch das ist, wenn es etwas in einem bewegt. Ich traue mich gar nicht den Film zum Buch zu gucken. 😅 Es ist, wie gesagt, ein sehr emotionaler Roman. Da es mich so berührt hat, ist es definitiv, wie man vielleicht schon denkt, eine klare Leseempfehlung! ABER, wie gesagt, wirkich nicht lesen, wenn es einem schon schlecht geht!!! Bitte!

Enthält Spoiler! INHALT Ist heute ein guter Tag zum Sterben?, fragt sich Finch, sechs Stockwerke über dem Abgrund auf einem Glockenturm, als er plötzlich bemerkt, dass er nicht allein ist. Neben ihm steht Violet, die offenbar über dasselbe nachdenkt wie er. Von da an beginnt für die beiden eine Reise, auf der sie wunderschöne wie traurige Dinge erleben und großartige sowie kleine Augenblicke – das Leben eben. So passiert es auch, dass Finch bei Violet er selbst sein kann – ein verwegener, witziger und lebenslustiger Typ, nicht der Freak, für den alle ihn halten. Und es ist Finch, der Violet dazu bringt, jeden einzelnen Moment zu genießen. Aber während Violet anfängt, das Leben wieder für sich zu entdecken, beginnt Finchs Welt allmählich zu schwinden… Quelle: randomhouse Erster Satz Ist heute ein guter Tag zum Sterben? COVER Ein bisschen verträumt und spielerisch wirkt das Cover und stimmt so nicht wirklich auf das Buch ein. Das Cover lädt zum Träumen und Verweilen ein und zeigt ein Mädchen und ein Junge im Licht des Mondes. CHARAKTERE Finch Finch wird nicht gemocht in der Schule. Er hat den Stempel des Freaks aufgedrückt und das nur, weil er nicht in das typische Jungen-Bild passt. Er drückt sich anders aus als andere in seinem Alter und ist ein bisschen verrückt und super spontan. Eigentlich ist Finch ein sehr intelligenter und aufgeschlossener Junge, der allerdings sehr mit sich selber zu kämpfen hat. Für Finch kommen seine Liebsten lange vor ihm selbst und das mag auch eins seiner Probleme sein. Hier geht es weiter.

I have mixed feeling about this one and yet I have given it 4 stars. I really really want to recommend it to others but then a part of me doesn't want it to also. The story is so raw and real. Not always there is hope , not always everybody including your family pays attention to what you are going through and a lot of times people just ignore you because you have that tag on you that yes he/she is like they will be fine and because of that i think I mostly liked the book. Though, the characters, I felt it somewhere near The Vampire Dairies (The series) Violet being Elena and Finch being Damon and the story to be a lot like Eleanor and Park also The fault in our stars. The storyline is way similar and the the way it is written down feels somehow you have read it before or the author is desperately trying to be like someone else. I felt a lot of more emotions could have been got into it and the sisters characters should have been a little more stronger and not there for the heck of it, Like Decca could have got in some interesting insights, i liked the part where she was taking out all the bad things from the book and keeping just the good ones. It affected Finch, Similarly if there was more of it, it would have been nice. I wanted to know more about Finch's Dad, the story of him and Finch could have given more depth to the character. I could have understood Finch. Not a bad read. Made me cry a little.