Everything, Everything

Everything Everything, by Nicola Yoon

Maddy is a young girl who lives a simple life but with one very dark life threatening secret....She is allergic to everything outside her house. Maddy has a rare sickness called SCID which basically means she is allergic to everything and anything can make her sick and possible kill her. When Olly and his family moves in next door, Maddy wants to know more about the outside and more about the young boy who always wears black.

7/10 star rating by Bbreview

This book is a love story with (sadly) a predictable plot twist. Don't get me wrong I really enjoyed all the characters from Maddy, her mom, Olly, and Nurse Carla. But, I think Nicola Yoon could have given the story something a little extra to make it stand out a little better from all the other sappy young stories out there today.

Maddie's Dad and brother:

we never really know anything about Maddie's life until after she meets Olly...all we really know is that Maddy is deathly sick... I believe Yoon should have added this in sooner to give us a better idea of why her mom acted the way she did with Maddy (Mom and daughters are not THAT close...not even in fictional stories) OR Yoon could have added how the death of Maddie's dad and brother caused Maddie's mom to take matters into her own hands to save her daughter from having the same fate as them.

Maddie and her Mom:

I also did not like the end relationship that was written for Maddie and her mom. Yes her mother lied to her and told her she had a deathly sickness when really she didn't her mom was just trying to protect the last person she had in her life that possible reminded her of her late husband and son. But Yoon left the story hanging with Maddie leaving her mother in tears to go be with a boy she only knew for a few weeks. How do you break up a bound that strong (Fictional or not) for a dude?????

Olly and Maddie:

Maddy first meets Olly when he is moving in next door. Soon after that Olly and his sister take Maddie and her mom a Bundt cake, which her mother had to refuse in order to keep Maddie thinking she was sick and could not eat outside food. After that Olly begins sending Maddy messages through her window involving the bundt cake trying to kill itself. Soon after they begin an online relationship of getting to know each other...Maddy begins ignoring her mother more to spend more time online with her neighbor (doesn't sound weird at all ) and soon talks her stay at home nurse into letting Olly come over to meet her more and more in person. Maddy begins seeing that Olly's father is an abusive drunk who likes to take his anger out on Olly and Olly's mother. So one night Maddy races out of her house to save him and causes her mother in finding out that Maddy had been secretly meeting with him at her house. In order to keep her daughter safe she tells her she can no longer see him which causes her to run away with Olly....(Can't tell you the rest or it will give the ending away.)

Ending:

The ending as I said before is WAYYYYYY to sketchy to leave it the way that Yoon did. I felt like after Maddie got sick, Yoon seemed to rush the books ending so that it would be published in time...possibly making up the ending as she went. Maddie finds out that she is not deathly sick but she does have a weak immune system since she has been kept at home all her life. And in the end she leaves her heart broken mother crying while she runs out the door to go to New York to find Olly....there she sends him messages to meet her in the book store and that is how the story ends.....

This was the part where I made my very sad face because this books ending was soooooo bad! I am sorry the story line was so good leading up to the end and then I finished the book and was looking around like WTF! why the hell would you publish a book unfinished like this!!!!! its inhuman! its a MURDER TO BOOKS!

So do I recommend this book...YES! even though it could of been better than it was I did like it.