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Book Review: All the Bright Places

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.  -Ernest Hemingway This is a tear-jerking book. At first I thought it would be a light book. But the struggle is heavy, it turned out to be. And the bereavement kind of feeling as a theme of this book never fails me. I cry loudly when Violet starts continuing her wanders to complete their project from U.S. Geography class. And the last place Violet visits is making me cry even harder. I love Finch and some part of me thinks about the same kind of thoughts as him. The other side of me is thinking hard about the reason why Finch gone through everything. I get the clue, of course. He used to get beaten up by his father. His mother doesn't really care about her family. But still, I think it is not enough to make him as complicated as him until all he can think about is drowning himself in a lake. I want more of his story. The complete story of Finch beside the death of the cardinal. But maybe there...