But I did like the build of their relationship after this, through miming at the window, chatting online and sharing poems, jokes and philosophical musings with one another.

It's like Madeline first sets her eyes on Olly and her whole concept of the world changes.

“For the first time in a long time, I want more than I have.” I thought Madeline was incredibly selfish at times, but this offered complexity to her character and her yearning was palpable: It was more cheesy than sweet, in my opinion, but I still enjoyed the emphasis on the human need for more. Unlike the aforementioned two, though, I found myself enjoying this book. It follows in the footsteps of the great doomed love cheesefest of our time - The Fault in Our Stars - and other clones like All the Bright Places. Madeline's condition aside - being allergic to the entire world outside her sterile home - it quickly became evident that the book wasn't as unique as I'd anticipated. all these reasons added up to one of my most anticipated reads of the year.Īnd it started quite beautifully-written with diverse characters, including an Afro-Asian narrator called Madeline. The reviews were all positive, it received a Kirkus star, it sounded so different. I have been dying to read Everything, Everything. the thing that just cheapens the entire story. It's a book I was kind of liking until the thing happens. It's a book many of my GR friends have loved. It’s almost certainly going to be a disaster. For example, I am certainly going to fall in love with Olly. Maybe we can’t predict the future, but we can predict some things. To want everything, everything the world has to offer. I learn that when I talk to him, my whole world opens up, and I feel myself starting to change-starting to want things. I learn that his eyes are Atlantic Ocean-blue and that his vice is stealing silverware. I want to learn everything about him, and I do. He’s tall, lean and wearing all black-black t-shirt, black jeans, black sneakers and a black knit cap that covers his hair completely. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nurse, Carla.īut then one day, a moving truck arrives. I don’t leave my house, have not left my house in fifteen years. It’s a form of Severe Combined Immunodeficiency, but basically, I’m allergic to the world.

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