Showing posts with label Jennifer Niven. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jennifer Niven. Show all posts

28 December 2016

Review #576: Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer Niven



My rating: 2 of 5 stars


“By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.”

----Dietrich Bonhoeffer



Jennifer Niven, the New York Times bestselling author, has penned yet another inspiring and strikingly honest YA contemporary fiction called, Holding Up the Universe is an inspiring story about flawed teenager-hood that youngsters constantly try to sugarcoat it with fake story lines. Mostly the story revolves around two flawed teenagers, among whom, one is trying to hide away his flaws from the world and the other is trying hard to make the world accept her in her flawed way. And the teenagers learn a lot to embrace their shortcomings a lot from one another's journey to self-realization.

16 June 2016

Review #457: All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven



My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”

----Albert Camus



Jennifer Niven, an American author, has penned a heart-breaking love story about two teenagers in her book, All the Bright Places that weaves a beautiful yet devastating tale of young love where both the primary characters are suffering from their own trauma yet their strange encounter brings them closer in a weird way but destiny has other and sad plans for these two innocent souls.