Everything, Everything

Nicola Yoon

Sep 2015 · Sold by Delacorte Press

About this ebook

Risk everything for love with this #1 New York Times bestseller from Nicola Yoon • "Gorgeous and lyrical"—The New York Times Book Review

What if you couldn’t touch anything in the outside world? Never breathe in the fresh air, feel the sun warm your face . . . or kiss the boy next door? In Everything, Everything, Maddy is a girl who’s literally allergic to the outside world, and Olly is the boy who moves in next door . . . and becomes the greatest risk she’s ever taken. 

"This extraordinary first novel about love so strong it might kill us is too good to feel like a debut. Tender, creative, beautifully written, and with a great twist, Everything, Everything is one of the best books I've read this year."—Jodi Picoult

My disease is as rare as it is famous. Basically, I’m allergic to the world. I don’t leave my house, have not left my house in seventeen years. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nurse, Carla.
 
But then one day, a moving truck arrives next door. I look out my window, and I see him. He's tall, lean and wearing all black—black T-shirt, black jeans, black sneakers, and a black knit cap that covers his hair completely. He catches me looking and stares at me. I stare right back. His name is Olly.
 
Maybe we can’t predict the future, but we can predict some things. For example, I am certainly going to fall in love with Olly. It’s almost certainly going to be a disaster.

Everything, Everything will make you laugh, cry, and feel everything in between. It's an innovative, inspiring, and heartbreakingly romantic debut novel that unfolds via vignettes, diary entries, illustrations, and more. 

And don’t miss Nicola Yoon's bestselling novels The Sun Is Also A Star and Instructions for Dancing.

Ratings and reviews

The book is so AMAZING, First of all it was so easy to read 'cause my English is m' second language, I didn't find it so hard to read or to understand. The book is so sensitive and really I liked it . Maybe this is going to be one of m' favourite books 📚 Fr I encourage you to buy this book 💗

I can't decide wether or not this is one of the best books or the worst books I have ever read. It feels like this book is a strange combination of beautiful and confusing. I want to read it and re-read it, and yet, the story laid out exactly as I thought it would be. it has all the answers, but they're answers I already knew. had I read this book about 2 years ago, I think my mind would have been blown. Or maybe I would have been intelligent enough even then to know how it was going to end. **SPOILERS** Don't read any further unless you don't care about spoilers or you've already read the book. I was dissapointed with Madeline's sickness being a lie. I was upset that they got a happy ending. I don't mean to sound like a pessimist here, but come one. So often the book goes on rants about how important it is to take risks, no matter the cost. But it feels like there are barely any consequences for Madeline's actions, nor her mom's. I think Madeline should have died at the end.

I cried twice reading this. First, when Madeline kisses Olly for the first time. Mostly because my heartache matched so perfectly with her when I first kissed the man I'm currently in love with. The kind of kiss that you know you shouldn't experience but still need more than anything else. Second, at the end when she reveals herself to Olly in the bookstore in New York, because I don't know if I'll ever have that moment with the man I'm in love with. Thank you.

About the author

NICOLA YOON is the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Everything, Everything; The Sun Is Also a Star, Instructions for Dancing, and One of Our Kind, and is a coauthor of Blackout and Whiteout. She is a National Book Award finalist, a Michael L. Printz Honor Book recipient, a Coretta Scott King–John Steptoe New Talent Award winner and the first Black woman to hit #1 on the New York Times Young Adult bestseller list. Two of her novels have been made into major motion pictures. She’s also the copublisher of Joy Revolution, a Random House young adult imprint dedicated to love stories starring people of color. She grew up in Jamaica and Brooklyn, New York, and lives in Los Angeles with her husband, the novelist David Yoon, and their daughter.