All the Bright Places is a young adult fiction novel by Jennifer Niven which is based on the author's personal story.

[2][3] Theodore Finch and Violet Markey are two teenagers who badly want to escape from their small Indiana town of Bartlett.

Violet is a popular girl who is secretly dealing with survivor's guilt, and Finch is a boy obsessed with death, labeled a freak by his peers.

Fate brings the two together when both climbed the bell tower at school at the same time, planning to jump off the ledge.

Later, at home, Finch thinks about Violet, looking her up on Facebook, reading about her sister's accident (which he had forgotten), and chatting online with her.

Eventually, Finch pushes Violet to get in the car and begin writing again, for the first time after her sister's accident nine months prior.

The teenagers wander around Indiana together some more; however, on one occasion they accidentally stay out until the next morning, angering Violet's parents who forbid their daughter from seeing Finch again.

All the Bright Places is written in a subjective style from the point of view of the two main characters, Finch and Violet.

This writing style allows readers to understand the changes in Violet as she heals from her sister's death and Finch as he progressively becomes more mentally ill throughout the novel.

The New York Times put All the Bright Places in the company of Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park and John Green's The Fault in Our Stars in that "Violet and Finch are the archetypal offering in contemporary young adult fiction: a pair of damaged, heart-tugging teenagers who are at once outcasts and isolated, trapped by the dissonant alchemy of their combined fates.

"[4] The New York Daily News claims "All the Bright Places draws you in and makes you cry with the compelling story of two teens, Violet and Finch.

[1] All the Bright Places won the 2015 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Young Adult fiction and the #1 Kids' Indie Next Book for Winter '14-'15.