Characters are introduced and discarded as fast as you can turn a page (in the case of nurse Evil, quite literally) and may add some light drama, but don’t do a lot plotwise. Aside from her mother, Olly and maybe Carla, we don’t really get to know anyone else. On the other hand, it really reads like a debut novel. It helps to move the story along at a nice pace and we get to know the main character pretty well. Nicola Yoon combines storytelling with doodles, IM-conversations, Maddy’s medical charts and tumblr posts. It’s a pretty original book and it reads very fast. Whether you like sick-lit or not, there are a few things even the most derisive person has to admit. For the first time she starts to get really curious about Outside and the world she lives in, but isn’t a part of. This changes when Olly moves next door with his family and she starts a friendship with him over IM. Maddy doesn’t have any other family members, because her father and brother died in a car accident when she was only a few months old. She is very zen in her life, being home-schooled and spending a lot of time with her mom (who is also Maddy’s doctor) and her nurse Carla. As a baby she was diagnosed with SCID (Severe combined immunodeficiency), which means any virus or pathogen could kill her. Madeline is an 18 year old girl who grew up in a protective bubble that is her house. And two, her adventure of a lifetime mostly takes place in her own house.įor those who haven’t read the book, a quick synopsis: For one, she’s not beautifully dying of cancer. For every book we read during the book club, we’ll write a review so that anyone who couldn’t be there can still join in with the fun! Saskia den Ouden is our new YA book club reviewer, judging all the books we read.Įverything Everything is one more book in the YA trend of illness-ridden teens.

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