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.
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I really loved this one. At first it was hard for me to get used to the format of the novel, and I wish the chapters would have been longer (it's so jarring to have chapters that are a page and a half long for me), and let me just tell you the makers of this kindle book kind of suck because all the special features were too tiny to read for the most parts so I missed some parts, but that's really my biggest complaint about this novel.
I loved Maddy, I loved Olly and how he was described (I could imagine him moving in my head, and let me tell you I enjoyed that lol), I loved this romance and how it developed - it wasn't insta love, it wasn't baseless. These two had a lot of reason to fall for each other, and I loved their relationship was relatively angst-less, considering Maddy illness.
I saw the twist coming from around 30% of the novel, and I was about 100% sure of it when her mom told her "you have no idea how much I love you". When people say that, it raises questions. but I can't say I minded that. At the same time, I wonder if that's a cope out? I'm all for this fantastic happy ending, but you wrote an entire book about this disability only to end it with "lol, jk!"
A more detailed review soon!
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