Everything, Everything review

I read the book Everything, Everything after I watched the movie trailer and it’s full of imagination, delightful conversations, and young love.

This story is so cute. I love Madeline and her imagination. She turns her sterile life into something beautiful.

I especially love all her conversations with Olly. She takes a chance on her new mysterious neighbor. She chooses to bring adventure into her life and risks everything to experience life like any normal person.

The movie takes Maddy’s vivid imagination and brings it to life.

Instead of reading her conversations with Olly, we see her imagining them together while they talk. She stares out her window, envisioning the glass falling away and her walking on grass and swimming in the ocean.

Most of her fantasized conversations take place in the models she makes for her architecture class. She designs diners and libraries and other places normal people go, and puts an astronaut in each model to explore for her.

They do a beautiful job with the movie. I love how the author wrote this story so her daughter could read about someone who looks like her. Her second novel, The Sun Is Also a Star, is a wonderful love story as well. Nicola Yoon writes characters that are passionate about life and discovering its mysteries, something that translates really well to film.