The book Everything, Everything, written by Nicola Yoon, is a realistic fiction novel focused around how Madeline Whittier lives her life with SCID, severe combined immunodeficiency. Everything, Everything is a beautifully written, descriptive, and enthralling novel. Yoon does an extraordinary job of describing her characters, settings, and plot throughout the entire story and never falters in details. She is able to keep the reader entertained with quotes that make you ponder life and the ideas in the quote such as “You can't predict the future. It turns out that you can't predict the past either. Time moves in both directions forward and backward - and what happens here and now changes them both.” Everything, Everything is a work of art that I highly recommend to others and give the utmost amount of respect.

The book opens with the description of Madeline's disease and another explanation of her life as it is. The book is only being introduced and described when Olly moves in next door and Madeline realizes that her life if about to change drastically. They befriend each other online and slowly their friendship is pushed outside into the real world, or at least Madeline's small world. Separations, violence, lies, and eagerness lead Madeline to make yet another decision that goes against everything she has ever known to get a glimpse of the real world. She discovers an immense amount of information that will alter everything she knows for the better. Or is it for the worse? Everything leading up to the plot and everything after it are all reasons why I enjoyed this book so much.

One of my most-liked aspects of the novel Everything, Everything was how the pace of the story was not rushed or going too fast. The book consistently was able to introduce characters, ideas, and crucial bits of information at the right time. The author very well symbolized the relationships between the characters, for example; the relationship between Madeline and her mother or the relation between Madeline and Olly. I was fond of the idea to exhibit the email messages between Madeline and Olly because I felt that it represented their connection with one another very nicely. There were very few aspects of the story that I was not keen with and where I would have added something. This is including the lack of resolution at the end of the story. I was quite confused as to what had happened when the story ended and I would have liked to see an epilogue or a better ending where it explains what happens.

In closing, I very much enjoyed reading the novel Everything, Everything and would highly suggest it to readers who enjoy reading realistic fiction stories where the main characters have a disease or sickness. Everything, Everything is a beautifully written book with descriptive details and deep, emotional, and thought provoking characters. A captivating plot will leave you wanting to read more. Set aside a day or two to read this book because once you start reading it, you can't put it down.