I read this book in one sitting on my summer holiday. It’s a short and sweet romance with likeable characters, a quick-paced adventure, and an original twist on your generic boy-meets-girl.

The story is quite predictable but it’s still intriguing and enjoyable due to its short length. It’s definitely a young adult romance so I certainly felt my age with it, but Maddy and Olly are both engaging characters and their romance is bittersweet.

With illustrations, note pages and snippets of book reviews intertwined in the story, the book works almost like a diary, with Maddy documenting her daily routine, detailing her medications and test results, and giving us more insight into her mind through short snippets of her day-to-day activities and thought processes.

With the use of instant messaging, as well, these narrative techniques all allow the story to be told in a quick pace, making conversations snappy and using illustrations to show things on a single page rather than having to go into detail about them. Not only is this visually appealing, making every page of the book look different and unique, but it is because of how quickly you can get through the story that makes it so interesting, as it would have been more sentimental and cliche if it was drawn out more than necessary.

Because of that, Everything, Everything is an enjoyable read that you can delve into for a few hours and come away feeling cheery and light. For younger readers especially, the romance will also be one to swoon over and Olly a character to daydream about hoping to find for yourself one day. I’ve definitely outgrown that, but I do still think that Yoon captures the feelings of a first-time romance in a really lovely way.