Ever since she met Olly, her desperate need to meet the world has amplified, and nothing is going to stand in her way. You understand me?”īut Madeline isn’t willing to give up. He’s going to meet some girl, and he’s going to be her Olly. Maybe he has time for you now, but he’s going to go back to school soon. Not only does she ban Madeline from ever seeing or talking to him again, but she also fires Carla, Madeline’s nurse and closest friend. “It’s the muscles,” he shoots back, flexing his biceps and raising a single comical eyebrow.īut then Madeline’s mother discovers that Olly has been in the house. “How do you manage to carry around an ego that size and weight?” He grins and a dimple forms just under his right eye. “You’re different than I thought you would be,” I blurt out. When Madeline’s nurse, Carla, finds a way for Olly and Maddy to meet, it seems almost too good to be true. Madeline: 75% cacao nutter dark chocolate brownĪn unlikely friendship starts to form, as the two teenagers couldn’t be more different: Madeline is studious and constantly craves knowledge about the world they live in, whilst Olly is more active and a big fan of parkour. At first, he tries to visit her at home, but when that fails epically, he starts writing notes on his bedroom window, and then the two teenagers move onto IMing: Olly is eccentric and different, and with an abusive, alcoholic father, he decides to befriend Madeline – for better or for worst. As someone who has accepted her sickness and its lack of cure, Madeline knows that outside equals bad.īut that was before Olly and his family moved in next door. She has never been outside of her house – never smelled the fresh air, never touched real grass, never know what the sun feels like on her skin – and she’s okay with that. I don’t leave my house, never left my house.
According to my mom I almost died as an infant. No one knows the triggers, but everyone knows the consequences.
It could be one, or all, or none of these things, or something else entirely.
It could be the chemicals in the cleaner used to wipe the table that I just touched. It’s a form of Severe Combined Immunodeficiency, but you know it as “bubble baby disease.” Basically, I am allergic to the world. BOOK REVIEW: Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon
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