Everything, Everything
Four years ago, Nicola Yoon decided to warm our hearts with her debut book Everything, Everything. This book won a New York Times bestseller award and was quite popular worldwide among young adults. A movie was also produced a year later after the book's debut and was also a hit in the theaters.
Nicola Yoon wrote Everything, Everything in a truly unique writing style. She didn't only write paragraph after paragraph, but she also included pictures, graphs, and many more. Everything, Everything was written from a first-person perspective. This book moves quite fast. The events happen quickly, and it's hard to put the book down.
Everything, Everything is about a girl that suffers from SCID (Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disorder) and a boy that lives next door. SCID is a genetically rare and deadly disease that causes a person to have a weak immune system and become sick easily. SCID means that the person is allergic to the world. Anything can trigger a reaction, or sometimes even death.
The main character, Madeline "Maddy" Whittier, isn't allowed to leave her house due to her disease. Madeline is an optimistic and smart girl who enjoys reading, spending most of her time attending online classes and with her mother. She has a friendly nurse that checks her daily and her mom is her best friend. One day, her life changed when a family of four moved in next door and she meets the son of the family. Olly Bright is a muscular and sporty boy who likes to do parkour with an abusive father that occasionally shouts at his mother. Both Madeline and Olly are limited to meeting each other, and most of their communication is through text.
The author created characters like no other. She made them unique and fun for the readers to explore more about the characters. The character development in Everything, Everything was fantastic as Madeline came from being a book worm to a brave girl that would die for her loved ones.
The structure of Everything, Everything was quite good. Nicola Yoon started with great rising action and an exploding climax with a satisfying ending to the story. There were many twists and turns in the story and a fabulous plot twist. Without the plot twist, the book wouldn't have been the way that it is. The big plot twist adds excitement and joy to the book. The dialogue in this novel was quite good because there were good expressions in every word said by the characters.
This book is recommended to readers who don't like slow events. And especially to readers that enjoy a good romantic book. Everything, Everything is a good book for a light read. This book is pretty easy to read, and the characters weren't difficult to understand.