Finch has spent the past few months asleep (his term for a depressive episode), but now that he’s awake, he’s fixated on death. I've never read a book with such flawed, vulnerable, and captivating characters, and by the end of the story, I was deeply, emotionally attached to both of them. As Finch stands at the top of his high school’s belltower, prepared to jump, he wonders if today is a good day to die. They're also written so genuinely that they seem like completely real people. From the top of Hoosier Hill to the dark waters of. Violet and Finch each narrate their stories in a crushingly honest way, from Finch's spiraling thoughts and infectious spontaneous energy to Violet's hope and self-discovery. With an ambitious script, pitch-perfect soundtrack, and heartfelt performances, Netflix's All The Bright Places shows great attention to detail. Violet and Finch are both teenagers struggling for escape Violet, whose sister died in a car crash that Violet survived, grapples with grief and guilt while Finch is abused by his father and is ostracized at school because of his obsession with death.įor me, reading ' All the Bright Places' was like stepping into Violet and Finch's small Indiana town: It's one of the rarest, most valuable examples of great character-building in realistic fiction. In the Netflix movie All the Bright Places, based on Jennifer Niven’s 2015 novel and directed by Brett Haley, audiences are introduced to the high school student Violet Markey (Elle.

Told through multiple POVs, ' All the Bright Places' centers around Violet Markey and Theodore Finch - aka two of the best fictional characters in the young adult world. 'All the Bright Places' was also adapted into a Netflix film in 2020 starring Elle Fanning as Violet and Justice Smith as Finch.

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