Throughout middle school, and to this day, one of my favorite guilty-pleasure books is Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon. It is the epitome of a sappy teen romance- the kind that builds unreasonably high expectations in middle schoolers walking into high school. In 2017, this book was released as a movie and I just so happened to get around to finally watching it! I reread the book over winter break and, today, mustered up the motivation to sit through an entire movie (which is something I have trouble doing with such a short attention span). While my neighbor loved the movie, she had not had the pleasure of experiencing the story with the enhancements of her imagination as I had through reading the book first. Don't get me wrong, I loved the way that some scenes were brought to life with added animations and inserted text, but some of the book's most memorable moments were failed to be incorporated into the movie's plot. The general premise of the story is that a girl is diagnosed with Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID) at a young age after the death of her father and brother and begins to fall in love with her new next door neighbor. The book created a relationship between Maddie (the main character) and her nurse, Carla, that was underdeveloped in the movie. Moreover, the movie had Carla's daughter befriending Maddie which not only never took place in the book, but also takes away from the feeling of isolation that Maddie felt which is vital to the plot of the story. Overall, I would definitely recommend reading the book, but despite my criticisms of the movie, I would also recommend watching the movie for a nice escape from reality.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/everything_everything_2017
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