'Everything Everything' review

Everything Everything

Author: Nicola Yoon

Published: September 2015

Blue stars: 5/5

I'm just gonna get this out of the way now. I LOVED THIS BOOK! I loved the characters, I loved the setting, I loved the plot twist, I loved the pictures (I know, it's a big kid book with pictures, what more could you want), and I LOVED Oli!!!!! *breaths*. Maddy has SCID (a.k.a bubble boy syndrome) and has been confined to her house for 18 years. A new family move next door, and Maddy (and all the readers!!!) are instantly intrigued into who the boy next door is. With some stalking (she is such a relatable character) she finds out that the boy is Oli. It's no surprise when a romance begins to blossom through emails and texts and soon the desire to meet is too high to handle (I get you Maddy, I wanna meet Oli too)

I think I loved the book so much because I could relate to Maddy so much. She is a complete optimist and her strength is admirable. Here is the thing that’s amazing about Maddy: she can remain positive and full of life even though she has never been outside, can count how many people she has met on one hand, has a life ruining disease, and is a teenager. I'm not sure I could be as positive as her if I had to go through all those things (being a teenager is hard enough). Also, her bravery still stays strong throughout. I mean, she runs away to Hawaii with Oli, she does things that she knows could have terrible consequences, SHE ROCK JUMPS WHEN SHE CAN’T SWIM (Yassss Maddy). You might say that's reckless, but I think that is what living a full life is, doing something because you can. I don’t think she is being reckless or irresponsible, she reached her limit and had to go, her had to live, it would have happened even if she didn't meet Oli, but it was more convenient she did because he was there for her when she did make this decision, she had someone to help her, and be there for her. Not that she needed it, she’s a boss, but it helped her realise sooner.

Also, I can't not speak about the plot twist!!! (if you haven't read it yet, do not read this paragraph, I want you to be angry, sad, happy, confused, and ruined when you get to that part. you don't get the easy way out!!!) I mean it was amazing. Not in a totally morbid way that her mother kept her basically as prisoner but that it was such a beautiful book until the darkness lurking with in came out and punched you in the face. When I first read it I was shocked (and I was told about the plot twist...I actually begged the person to tell me, and I was still shocked knowing how it would turn out) the huge twist also really made me think, it made me feel for Maddy even more. The one person she trusted most, the one person in everyone's lives who they trust the most, her own mother was the one who deprived her of all those experiences. It made me really upset that, that was how the book had to end (and I say had, because she needed her freedoms, Maddy couldn't experience any of that then go back to the way things were... could anyone?!?!?) it was an essential stab in the heart, like Dumbledore’s death.

so yes, as I have said before, I LOVED THIS BOOK, and to think this was Nicola Yoon’s first novel as well. YOU GO NICOLA! I highly recommend you read it, even if you think you won't like it, and even if you don't like it, it's one of those books that you just gotta read at least once, or twice, or thirty times!!!

my blue rating for this week’s book would be 5/5 blue stars