388 halaman
Knopf, 2015
eBook-English version
Bacaan bulanan Klub Baca Quirky Reads November 2015
"But that isn't why. The why is that none of it matters. Not school, not cheerleading, not boyfriends or friends or parties or creative writing programs or..." She waves her arms at the world. "It's all just time filler until we die."
-Violet Markey
There are different ways to die. There's jumping off a roof and there's slowly poisoning yourself with the flesh of another every single day.
-Theodore Finch
I know life well enough to know you can't count on things staying around or standing still, no matter how much you want them to. You can't stop people from dying. You can't stop them from going away. You can't stop yourself from going away either. I know myself well enough to know that no one else can keep you "awake" or keep you from "sleeping".
-Theodore Finch
The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that counts.
-Theodore Finch
SINOPSIS
Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him.
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.
When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, it's unclear who saves whom. 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 guy who's not such a freak after all. And it's only with Finch that Violet can forget to count away the days and start living them. But as Violet's world grows, Finch's begins to shrink.
This is an intense, gripping novel perfect for fans of Jay Asher, Rainbow Rowell, John Green, Gayle Forman, and Jenny Downham from a talented new voice in YA, Jennifer Niven.
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Seperti yang tertulis di cover bagian depan, All the Bright Places bercerita mengenai seorang pemuda bernama Theodore Finch dan seorang gadis bernama ultra-Violet re-Markey-ble (Finch sering memanggilnya dengan Ultraviolet Remarkeyble). Walaupun novel ini adalah bacaan bulanan Quirky Reads, tapi aku tidak benar-benar berniat untuk membacanya sampai buku ini akhirnya memenangkan Goodreads Choice Awards for Young Adult Fiction 2015. Dan dengan titel yang begitu menjanjikan, aku pun akhirnya mulai membaca.
All the Bright Places mengangkat sebuah topik yang menarik dan cukup dalam. Yaitu mengenai 'bunuh diri'. Aku tidak familiar dengan topik ini karena 'syukur' tidak pernah mengalami peristiwa dimana orang yang kukenal bunuh diri. Sehingga perlu kuakui bahwa sulit bagiku untuk merasa terhubung dengan perasaan karakter utama di dalam buku ini. Aku tidak dapat mengerti alasan yang membuat mereka melakukan hal semacam itu...
