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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Every so often the night sky shines with a brilliant light. Nicola Yoon is one of these and Everything Everything is a blazing star. Madeline and Olly will take you on a heart-roaring adventure through love and fear. And while this may be a romance, it’s twists and turns are unpredictable and stirring. I loved the book, couldn’t stop reading. It has all everything you want, plus some very cool drawings. So do yourself a favor. Dive in and don’t worry about breathing. You’ll surface soon enough.
Read it for a book club…probably would not have otherwise. Easy vacation read over Spring Break. Reminds me of The Fault In Our Stars. Creative layout/writing technique. Love the diversity in this YA novel. Not my genre, otherwise I would have given it 5 stars.
I loved Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon. I wasn’t sure what to expect because I watched the movie first and really enjoyed it. Nicola has an amazing way of writing that emotes without overtly emoting. Olly was an amazing hero, and Maddy had a very pure, innocent heart. There was a sex scene between the two characters, but I thought it was handled very tastefully and poetically and shows a really honest representation of what it’s like to be a teen feeling all those big feelings.
Another amazing romance! Nicola Yoon tells this story in such a simple yet eventful way. This was probably the fastest it took me to ever read a book and I still find myself constantly pulling it off the shelf, it’s my go to. I could say so much more about this story but it’s much better to read this book knowing nothing at all about it. This way each new chapter is a surprise; and I bet you 5 bucks you will find yourself with a huge smile on your face at least once while reading this book!
Everything, Everything is a very deep, romantic, and sad story. Madeline has an extremely rare illness stopping her from going outside, she’s allergic to the world. She hasn’t left her house in 17 years. But she’s content with her life because she knows it’s all she’s ever going to get. But when a boy moves in next door, Madeline suddenly wants a lot more from life. Olly, the boy next door and Madeline grow to be great friends over email, because of Madeline’s Illness. But when Madeline’s carer allows him to see Madeline, everything changes. He can’t see Madeline all the time though. Her mum has no idea of these visits and she certainly wouldn’t allow them if she knew. Also, Olly has to be “decontaminated” every time he sees her which is very time-consuming. Seeing Olly makes Madeline hungry for the world, and she does something that changes her life forever….she went outside. This book is really good. It’s a quick read – I got through it very quickly. It’s a sad book, but then things happen which turn everything around. I read this as a young teen and would recommend it to any other person my age or older. Overall, this is a really good book!
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This book is one of my favorite books, hands down! It’s a page turner for sure and the end is unbelievable and makes you have several emotions. This book was one of the most incredible page turning books, I finished it in an hour an a half. Seriously! Read it!!!!!!!!!!
Everything Everything was very good in the beginning and I couldn’t put the book down! But when the ending came, it dropped the book so low. I wouldn’t recommend this book if you get bored easily
Such an amazing love story non- similar to any else that I’ve read before, it is just so perfect, so lovely, and makes you think how simple things can be really amazing with someone special. Love is everything, everything.
This wonderful book is about a girl named Maddy, who is allergic to the outside world. She hasn’t left her house since her dad and brother died when she was five months old. Her life is consistent, until a new family moves in next door. Their son, Olly, is going to rock Maddy’s world. For better or for worse? You’ll have to find that out yourself. I absolutely loved this book, and I recommend it to anyone over the age of 12.
I fell in love with reading as a young adult devouring books faster than I could acquire them (Judy Blume was my favorite to reread and reread and reread), so as a voracious reader now of adult fiction I love an occasional YA novel with strong crossover appeal. If you can relate, you won’t go wrong with this book. It’s everything I loved about fiction as a teen, and everything I still love about it now: heartfelt and original and driven by character and voice and an impossible problem that somehow she manages to solve.
Fresh, original, heartbreakingly funny, and memorable
this book is so so good! there is just 1 scene that is really unnecessary..but besides that it is very good of you are looking for a romantic book to read!!
This book reminded me that I need to get out and live life. In the book, Maddy had a disease that restrained her from going outside. I won’t tell you anymore, because I don’t want to spoil anything. I recommend reading this book.
A timely story! Everyone should consider the painful consequences of only seeing a person’s status (citizen, resident, immigrant etc), rather than the amazing human being before them. This story presents readers with the opportunity to meet, observe, and learn from wonderful characters, regardless of their status!
The description sounds fantastic and amazing so I was all to glad to add it to my I need to buy list and so when I did finally buy it I was in love yesterday. When I read it I was just like what kind of life is living in a bubble like Maddy does and we soon see that it isn’t really a life.
Maddy has her mom and her nurse Carla who always tries and makes her feel better. Maddy is happy with her life until she has new neighbours when she sees them moving in she likes the son Olly immediately. For a bit she just watches, and the first time Olly tries to make contact him and his sister bring a cake around the house but of course they can’t accept it because she is ill. So a few days later he begins writing on the window and so does she and then they begin IM, (Takes me back to the days of MSN) and they begin to get closer.
Maddy asks Carla if he can come in which involves being decontaminated and all that but he does it anyway and he comes round and they begin to get closer and he does come round a few more times. Then one day she runs out to him and then is immediately took back in.
I can’t tell you the end of this but she discovers something and I did not see it coming, like when I was reading it my mouth was like wide open and I couldn’t believe it. But you won’t understand that unless you have read it, and if you saw it coming. I don’t believe you. I only had an idea when Maddy had an idea.
Her and Olly break up slightly but then they get back together and live happily ever after. I loved their relationship but I also thought maybe it was a little fantasy rather than real life love. How he acts with her even though she is sick and cannot leave her house, he still begins to talk to her. Like if you look at most 17/18 year old boys they aren’t that understanding and I don’t think they would be that patient. That’s just me, I could be wrong but I thought the relationship may have been farfetched. But I can say that as characters they did love each other.
Maddy she was so smart, being that she hadn’t left the house she was probably much more knowledgable than most people in regards to books. She reads a lot and what I loved about one of the structure of this book is on the books she had read she put spoilers for the book. Which I loved I thought it was unique and something different. I fell in love with Maddy’s character so easily and she was such a fantastic character.
Olly. Of course he was hot, what boys aren’t hot in books? That’s why the girls fall for him, from the start you sometimes think Olly is just an ignorant teenage boy but as Maddy watches him and his family we soon learn it is not the case. His dad is a bad alcoholic and hits his mum and sometimes even him, so we soon get that he isn’t shallow and I think at that point in the book is when my opinion of Olly changed in my mind. So in the end I loved Olly and how he felt for Maddy was so plainly obvious and the fact he wanted to help her see the world I thought was beautiful.
Her mum. At first I loved her and then the thing is revealed and then I began to hate her. I can’t express my feelings on this because if you haven’t read it, may spoil you. I may do a video spoiler for that (tell me if you would like that) But I hate her. Then a part of me feels really sorry for her but then I hate her again.
Carla is Maddy’s nurse before her mum fires her for letting Olly into the house and near Maddy. I loved Carla, you could see how much she loved Maddy and wanted to be there for her, she wanted her to be happy and went out of her way to make her happy. Carla was a good character and you can tell how much she cares and I love her.
The world building didn’t take much, because it was set mostly in the house other than going to I think it was Hawaii or Miami or none of them two I can’t remember but they went away and when they did the world building was good there.
I loved the plot, it was something so different and I don’t think I have ever read something like this it was brilliant I loved it and the end was brilliant and the way the ending was revealed it was good and Maddy learning to have her own feet is something I love.
loved it
I thought this book was absolutely amazing. The characters were great and they had me rooting for them the whole time. I read this book in one night and that is very impressive for me. I love the author too! This romantic book keeps you reading till the very end. I had no idea what was coming. This book is definetly a good one!!!
Cute, easy to read story about a girl who has to learn that sometimes family isnt always honest, and the people who you just met can sometimes be your strongest ally.
The main character is amazingly sweet and almost annoyingly forgiving, to her circumstances. Great development of the other characters, fun story, and a super quick read.
So I started reading [book:Everything, Everything|18692431] because I wanted to read the book before I saw the movie and a co-worker told me it was a fast read. I had no idea all the feelings I would feel reading this. The biggest one being lamentation. But we’ll get to that later.
The basic premise of the book is that the female protagonist Madeline is a teenage girl that is stuck in her house because of an illness (think “Bubble Boy” but a girl and not comedy). One day, a family moves in next door complete with a cute teenage boy named Oliver. The love is inevitable, the Bundt cake is indestructible, and the ending is almost unpredictable. Hence the feelings.
The first thing I felt was the desire to burn everything I’ve ever written. EVERYthing, Everything. I believed for a few seconds this is really why Nicola Yoon gave it this title. As a writer of women’s fiction and romance, an English professor, and a lover of language, the simple poetic prose here is exquisite. This is one of the best examples of poetic prose since [author:Toni Morrison|3534]’s last venture. And surprisingly (although now I don’t know why), in a YA novel. It makes everything I’ve written feel like “See Spot run.” I want to burn my notebooks and tear out my hair.
And because the language is so wonderful, you want to sigh at the flirty cute parts, laugh at the funny parts – like the Bundt cake scenes – and gasp and yell at the twists and turns that help move this story from arc to ending. So, yes, all the other feelings.
I’ve read very few reviews, but I will bet someone is put off by the illustrations in the book. Well, you do have your opinion, but the illustrations (which were done by the author’s husband), bring even more richness and layers to the story. I especially love how she signs her journal entries that she makes in her assignment notebooks. It’s very obviously misplaced, and therefore shows a bit of her restrained but evident free-spirit side. Great detail.
It’s a great YA novel (and great adult novel for all of us adults that still dream) that’s deeper than some of the more vapid choices in this genre, but not too heavy to deter its audience from reading. It’s a pure joy to read.
Maddy is stuck at home because she suffers of SCID, an immune condition that forbids her to leave her house. Things are bound to change when the new neighbors move in and she strikes an internet friendship with her quirky teenage neighbor.
I enjoyed this very creative book! The writing is interspersed with clever, humorous drawings. I loved the main character Maddy and that her heritage was mixed. The book was sweet and believable.
I recommend!