It has sadness, romance, and even education about mental illness. My wife is a counselor and, although they aren't perfect, at heart all of the ones i've known would never in a million years treat a potential suicide that way.All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven, has a little bit of everything. REALLY? A school counselor GLARING at a boy about to commit suicide? I understand the need for an author to establish the 'good vs bad' characters in a story, but this one is so far beyond realistic it honestly pissed me off. I don't know what pissed me off more about the depiction of 'high school' in this beginning - the way a kid on the ground yelled, 'why don't you go ahead and get it over with freak' to the unpopular boy, the way the other kids LAUGHED at that or the way the school councilor GLARED at the boy about to jump. I have no problem with the story beginning this way, but the absolutely asinine way the 'crowd' behaves below them is why i will be getting my credit back right after hitting 'submit' on this review.

It is by chance they both happen to be up there at the same time.

One is a popular girl, one is an unpopular boy. There are two kids from a high school standing on a tall structure on campus, both close to jumping to their death. I can't continue to listen to a book that sets up its premise the way this one has. This could be considered a minor spoiler, but since it happens in the first 15 minutes it is only minor. Please note: Includes a PDF Help Line Resource Guide, available in your Audible Library, and a Note read by the author. But as Violet's world grows, Finch's begins to shrink. And it's only with Finch that Violet can forget to count away the days and start living them. And when they pair up on a project to discover the 'natural wonders' of their state, both Finch and Violet make more important discoveries: It's only with Violet that Finch can be himself - a weird, funny, live-out-loud guy who's not such a freak after all. When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, it's unclear who saves whom. Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister's recent death. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him. Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might die. This New York Times best-selling love story about two teens who find each other while standing on the edge is soon to be a Netflix film starring Elle Fanning and Justice Smith!

Novel all the bright places