All the Bright Places

Jennifer Niven 2015

Devastation Rating

Existential Dread
mental health suicide young adult grief

Our Take

Niven writes mental illness without romanticizing it and grief without softening it. You follow two broken teenagers convincing each other to stay — until one cannot. The ending does not arrive like a twist; it arrives like a phone call you were always going to receive. Put something soft nearby.

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