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 … . . 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.
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This is book is amazing and I love that this is about a real problem that occurs in some people. It has amzing unpredictable page-turners. I love it!
i love this book! I have yet to see the movie but the book is AMAZING!
Captivating and beautifully written. Me Before You for teens (with a happier ending) plus a twist I didn’t see coming. I really enjoyed reading this and loved Maddy’s drawings/ideas incorporated.
Fun, memorable, quick read.
Is it a teen romance novel or a coming of age book? Both, but really the later as Maddy, who has never left the safety of her house, due to a rare disease that makes her allergic to almost everything begins to discover who the real Maddy is after developing an instant attraction to the boy who moves in next door. Love will make you crazy is a theme played out in two story lines and in one it does not end well when a secret is finally accidentally discovered. Overall, this is a charming easy to read novel with the focus squarely on Maddy.
Spoilers: without knowing anything about the disease Maddy purportedly had, I quickly wondered whether she was actually sick. And it seems odd to me given the daily nursing care that this facts would not have been discovered much sooner. Once Maddy decides to take the big chance on love and living to leave and go on a trip, other than her impressions of a car ride, there is no development regarding her learning how to move around in the outside world. Also there is no explanation of how a girl who has never left home could accomplish boarding a plane without picture ID, which was probably a choice by the author to keep the flow of a fast escape but raising the ID issue would have added tension to the story that would have made the escape more realistic. In the end Maddy is still just nascent and on the edge of real self discovery. The ending made me feel that it was wrapped up quickly and meant to leave room for a sequel. 3 1/2 *
It is a cute teen-age love story. Maddy is telling stories about her experiences in many different forms, like reports, book review, poems, journals, memo, emails, etc. Since Olly’s family moves into her neighborhood, he becomes her obsession. It sounds like a typical teen age crash, but there is a catch. Maddy cannot get out of her house because of her illness. This situation, however, doesn’t stop the young love. As a mother, I empathize with Maddy’s mom instead of blaming her. Surprise towards the end leads to a somewhat predictable ending. I enjoyed the pace of this book as if I was reading Flowers for Algernon. It is an easy read, but I don’t recommend for pre-early teens.
Still reeling from my last amazing fantasy read, I took to another book in a vastly different genre: a contemporary YA romance. I finished Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon, published by Alley Entertainment, and honestly, was really disappointed with it. I really wanted to like the book, not the least because it was a Christmas gift to me, but also because everyone else seems to like. Still, I just could not get into it.
The basic premise of this book is that the main character, Madeline, is sick. She has SCID, meaning she can’t leave her house lest she succumb to a deadly infection. But when a boy moves next door and they start communicating via IM, she might just risk everything for everything.
What I did like was the unique way the book was presented: different chapters had drawings, diagrams, emails, and journal entries making the book mixed-media. I really adored the look into our protagonist’s mind through all of these elements that tell more than just narration.
However, that’s where what I like stops. Maybe this is because I’m too stuck in a fantasy kick. Still, I felt the plot was way too slow. For much of the book, nothing happens. (Like, I have no idea how they made a movie out of this). Then, when stuff does happen, the biggest plot flaw is how in the world do these two teenagers get money??? Plus, the romance was very insta-love, and I’m only in it for slow burns, which is more realistic in my opinion.
All in all, I have to give this book two stars out of five. I’m sorry to the fans of Yoon out there. But for me, I’m off to hopefully better things.
This is my favorite book so far in 2021!
I loved the voices of the characters, the original plot, and they whole style in which it was written. It was one of those just-one-more-chapter books that keeps you going way past bedtime. It was both heart-warming and heart-wrenching, and creatively written in somewhat of a diary format, but not entirely. Although it’s YA, I’d recommend it to adults as well as teens.
This was an absolutely amazing book. it gives you inside on a teenagers mind, it lets you live in girl who lives with an “illness” we saw her go through happiness, doubt, sadness, anger, fear. we saw her go through it all in a matter of days. we saw trust, lies, loneliness, we saw present day issues that happen in this world, and we especially saw some action in this book ( plus a steamy scene <3 ) i loved this book so much and is a great first romance to read.
Nice,and romantic
I expected so much more from this book. The writing style was interesting enough, but it had a very slow start.
This is a story about a girl named Madeline “Maddy” who has SCID. she is allergic to the outside world. She loves to read, she loves her mom, and she loves her nurse, Carla (not in that way). But above all, she loves the boy she just met next door named Olly.
We can all guess what happens with these star-crossed lovers.
There is a whole lot of avoidable drama.
This is my favorite book of all time. I’ve read it twice already and am reading it a third. Its so original and enthralling. It is romantic, sweet, cute and sad at times. It is a very well written book and I totally recommend it to anyone and everyone. This book to me is everything. Everything.
I loved the first person point of view and the multimedia format.
“It’s impossible not to get sucked into this book.”
This book was fantastic! I finished it in less than 24 hours. I didn’t want to put it down! Maddy and Olly are perfect for each other, and their personalities/quirks make them even more likable.
You guys said it was free………….. im annoyed
The amount of love I have for this book is unbelievable, such amazing book from such an amazing writer. I totally recommend it, you won’t regret reading it.
I enjoyed the creativity of the chapters and illustrations and the beauty of the unpredictableness of it
i love it!!!
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