Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon

"Spoiler Alert: Love is worth everything. Everything."

I'd been meaning to pick this one up for a while, and recently I was in the mood for a cutesy contemporary and BY GOLLY, that's what I got! Spoilers ahead. 

First of all though, this ended up being a lot darker than I had anticipated. Umm.. SHE WASN'T EVEN SICK? THAT WHOLE TIME? WHAAAT?! I genuinely didn't see that one coming, even though I guess maybe I should have. But just the twist that it was really her mom that was sick the entire time was crazy and I felt so bad for everyone involved in the whole mess. But Maddy gets to live her life now so it's good, right? Right?! 

Anyway, let's talk about Madeline. I like her. I like that she doesn't feel sorry for herself and that she thinks the meaning of life can be found in a book, because GIRL, SAME. She's funny and cute and bold and I like her a lot. 

Can we talk about Olly? I LOVE HIM. He's so cute and he's intrigued by her right away which I found super cute, I guess, I don't know, I'm hopeless. Anyway, the e-mails and IM's that we get to see between them always made me smile. And I just think they are literally so cute for reasons that I can't quite place. This book just gave me the happy feelings. Also, he calls her a princess a few times, so he gets extra points for that in my book. 

Also, I loved Carla a lot. She made me happy with her hesitant support of their relationship. EEP. And she just LET MADDY GO TO HAWAII SO SHE COULD LIVE HER LIFE? WOW, WHAT A LADY.

So, I got my hands on the movie like two days after I finished the book, and I just want to talk about that for a second. It was okay, but it ruined my favorite parts of the book! AGH. So, one of my favorite things about these two is that Olly is the only one who EVER calls her Maddy, Mads, Mad, etc. It's ADORABLE and I love it! Yeah, they ruined that in the movie. She tells her that her name is Maddy and he's like "oh okay." NO! It's supposed to be special that he calls her that!

I really liked the ending of the book. We find out in the beginning that she writes in every one of her books a reward for if a stranger were to find it. Olly finds her book and the reward is her, and AWWW. I LOVED IT. The movie didn't do that. At all. It was weird and stupid and I'm upset about it. 

Also, because I barely mentioned it, I'd just like to say that Hawaii was cute and it made me happy. 

I think that's all I've got. The book was pretty good, but despite the fact that I just fangirled a ton over it, it wasn't my favorite thing, you know? Like 3.5 stars maybe? It was chill.

^^ the FREAKING ADORABLE E-MAILS, MAN