whisperingchapters's Review of Everything, Everything

by Nicola Yoon

Risk everything . . . for love with this #1 New York Times bestseller.

What if you couldn’t touch anything in the outside world? Never breathe in the fresh air, feel the sun warm your face . . . or kiss the boy next door? In Everything, Everything, Maddy is a girl who’s literally allergic to the outside world, and Olly is the boy who moves in next door . . . and becomes the greatest risk she’s ever taken.

My disease is as rare as it is famous. Basically, I’m allergic to the world. I don’t leave my house, have not left my house in seventeen years. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nurse, Carla.

But then one day, a moving truck arrives next door. I look out my window, and I see him. 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. He catches me looking and stares at me. I stare right back. His name is Olly.

Maybe we can’t predict the future, but we can predict some things. For example, I am certainly going to fall in love with Olly. It’s almost certainly going to be a disaster.

Everything, Everything will make you laugh, cry, and feel everything in between. It's an innovative, inspiring, and heartbreakingly romantic debut novel that unfolds via vignettes, diary entries, illustrations, and more.

And don’t miss Nicola Yoon's The Sun Is Also A Star, the #1 New York Times bestseller in which two teens are brought together just when it seems like the universe is sending them in opposite directions.

This 2.5 review can be found on Latte Nights Reviews on August 3.

I really enjoyed reading about this illness that I had never heard of before in my life. For a second, I thought it was invented but no, it isn't. It must be sad to live very secluded like Maddy was. All Maddy had for company were her mom, her nurse and books...lots of books. Then one day this family moves next door and Maddy sees the boy next door, Olly—it was love at first sight. I do not like love at first sight in books so you can imagine how frustrated I was. I understand that she was secluded...very, very secluded but come on. All of a sudden, she stopped her game/movie nights with her mom so she could chat with Olly until the wee hours of the night. I wanted to smack Maddy for ditching her mom for a boy she hadn't even fully met.

The story kept progressing and stop happened that had me frustrated, too. Maddy decides to go outside and leave for Hawaii with Olly and no one else. They have sex on the trip and I really was mad at her. I mean, her mom was so worried about her but don't even get me started on her mom. I kind of figured out that major secret at the end way before it ended but it still was surprising. Still, this was a book that opened my eyes to an illness that, as I said before, I hadn't heard of and it really intrigued me. The romance was a major turn off but I have to admit that Olly was a cool kid. I give it 2.5 because I did enjoy the book to an extent. It wasn't all that bad.

Everything, Everything

by Nicola Yoon

Reviewed by whisperingchapters on Jul 22, 2015

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