Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him. 
 Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister's recent death. 
 I gave this book much thinking and I read a lot of reviews, since the opinions about it seems to vary from really good to really overrated. But my first impression still stands and I give the book 5 stars. 
 Without going much into detail, I have to say that I can't relate to any of the negativity this book gets (it is okay if you don't like it, that is your opinion and I don't want to criticizes that, I just don't agree). I fell in love with Finch immediately (view spoiler)[ and I still grief his death very much (hide spoiler)]. 
 A lot of people say this book is more for suicide survivors, not so much for people with depression, but I live with depressions for 10 years now and I still found this to be a wonderful book. 
 The adults in this book, as often criticized, are not really paying attention, but I can relate to this a lot, since it is sometimes very hard for people to just know that you have a mental health issue, even more so, if you are good at hiding it. I think this book shows wonderfully how it should not be and I understand it as a critic of society in terms of mental health issues. 
 I also don't see that much similarity to The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, for me Finch and Violet feel like totally different characters, if so many reviews wouldn't have compared it to TFIOS I wouldn't even have thought about it. But this might be just me... 
 On that note, I also don't feel like the characters become their depression. Finch had so many beautiful moments, whereas if he would have been his sickness, he probably would have been a lot more black in feelings instead of the brightness he shows, wich I love, since this is more the reality than the cliche of depression being all down, down, down. Finch has so many bursts of colors (view spoiler)[ and still he lost in the end (hide spoiler)]. It made me love him even more. 
 Yes, I saw the ending coming. But till the last few chapters I still hoped, even though I just knew . But I don't feel like this end leaves us hopeless. I learned a lot from this and it made me thankful that I was strong enough to get my self help a year ago. I took so much from this book, I personally feel like it changed a part of me for good. 
 As I said, I won't go much into detail about why I love this book, you could read any other 5 star rating review to know why I love it, but I wanted to state a few thoughts I got while reading reviews about this book. 
 For me, Finch and Violet felt real and I enjoyed the book a lot.