All the Bright Places

Violet and Finch officially meet on top of the bell tower of their school. Both are thinking about jumping, for completely different reasons, so one talks the other out of jumping and so begins the journey of the two.
2.75
I honestly don't know how to rate this because I loved half of Part 1 and the rest was a bunch of different emotions. I wasn't really feeling part three, but that could because I wasn't fond of the character who was narrating it. I much preferred Finch's point of view in part 1 but in part 2 he had a sense of hopelessness that you already knew he was fighting a losing battle. The author made it quite obvious that the characters were more about their illness than actual characters. I loved the quotes that he shared and just in general his inner thoughts, but in part 2 it was hard to read from his point of view because he was simply personifying his illness.
I personally could not handle reading from Violet's point of view. She was so entitled and got mad when people treated her with sympathy (even though she was clearly looking for it). In general she was so judgmental and nasty with other characters and judged others when they did it to her. Part three was especially hard to get through because she acted like the world owed her something. In the end she acted as if she really knew Finch and hated that others just pretended to be sympathetic when she was exactly like them in the beginning.
Ok so I'm going off in a rant that is not really helping anybody. In the end I enjoyed parts of the novel but I can't say I understand why so many people love it. Violet was a terrible character and Finch was just full of hopelessness that I couldn't even really empathize with. The characters should have been more like characters rather than encapsulations of their illness.