Everything, Everything
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4.6 • 203 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
New York Times Bestseller
My disease is as rare as it is famous. It's a form of Severe Combined Immunodeficiency, but basically, I'm allergic to the world. I don't leave my house, have not left my house in fifteen years. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nurse, Carla.
But then one day, a moving truck arrives. New next door neighbors. I look out the 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. I want to learn everything about him, and I do. I learn that he is funny and fierce. I learn that his eyes are Atlantic Ocean-blue and that his vice is stealing silverware. I learn that when I talk to him, my whole world opens up, and I feel myself starting to change--starting to want things. To want out of my bubble. To want everything, everything the world has to offer.
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.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
All teenagers feel claustrophobic at some point, but Madeline Whittier’s situation is different. She’s spent her entire life in a pristine, airtight house due to a rare medical condition. Her days stretch on with monotonous regularity until the day that cute, black-clad Olly moves in next door. There’s so much to love in Everything, Everything, a hopelessly romantic and thoughtful novel. The story is told through Madeline’s eyes, and Nicola Yoon uses IMs, emails, charts, and original drawings to bring her characters' idiosyncrasies to life. We loved every page—and are ecstatic that the book’s being made into a movie.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Madeline Whittier, a biracial 18-year-old, has severe combined immunodeficiency, a rare condition that renders her allergic to nearly everything and requires her to live inside a carefully sealed environment. Madeline's contact is limited to her physician mother and her full-time nurse, until handsome Olly moves in next door. Madeline falls for him from her window and begins disobeying the rules that keep her from the outside world. Despite the serious dangers posed by Madeline's medical condition and Olly's violently alcoholic father, Yoon's debut reads breezily. Many chapters consist of single, short paragraphs, as well as emails, chat exchanges, and Madeline's pithy book reviews (of Lord of the Flies, "Spoiler alert: Boys are savages"). Yoon's husband provides diagrams, cartoons, and other illustrations that reflect Madeleine's claustrophobia, whimsical longings, excitement over Olly, and sense of humor. The main conflict is resolved in a few brief pages and reflects an overall tendency for things to happen a bit too easily. Even so, this is an easy romance to get caught up in. Ages 12 up.
Customer Reviews
Incredible
I just can't put into words what and how I feel about this story. Simply amazing, beautiful, it is my favorite novel. Such a great story and amazing characters. Wow.
Boring
Not good it was boring and just like every other expected teenage romance
Not good
Awfully boring and an expected ending