Book Review : Everything, Everything // Nicola Yoon

Ah its been almost three and a half months since I last blogged *sheepish grin* 

I haven’t really had the time to complete all the half written blog posts sitting in the drafts section collecting dust over the days. But now that my exams are over and I finally have some inspiration to blog I decided to start off with a book review of a book I just read yesterday. Oh and Ramadan Mubarak to those celebrating it 😊

Sypnosis :

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. 


Rating : 3.7 / 5 stars

Review :

I wanted this book to be so so different to the other contemporaries that I have read where the main protagonist is sick and it wasn’t in most ways but was in some ways. Madeline has SCID a rare disorder where your immune system is extremely weak and so she lives inside an air filtered house. With her mum and a nurse. And then one day a family moves in next door and naturally there is a boy who is Maddy’s age and they fall in love and yada yada yada.

This was why I wasn’t a huge fan of this book. The instant love and the feel to escape only because of that boy and nothing else. But what made me fall in love with the book was the last third of it where the author introduces a plot twist like no other. I actually wasn’t expecting anything like that at all. It was crazy brilliant of Nicola Yoon to use that and that was what set this book apart from the many other contemporaries that I have read. 
And so I think it will be a good read especially after you have read a whole lot of action and fantasy which is very heavy on the head. 

Oh and the movie is also out by the way. I haven’t watched it yet but Amandla (who plays Rue in The Hunger Games movie) is playing Madeline so I think it’ll be good. 

And that’s all for now
Till next time
=)<3Sammy


p.s. I just love the cover though. Its just everything 😉