By DEITRA WEDD, Staff Writer
Madeline Whittier is a girl with a very rare disease, called severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) or as it’s more commonly known bubble baby disease. To have bubble baby disease means that Madeline Whittier is allergic to the world, and needs a protective bubble around her at all time to survive. The protective bubble is Madeline’s house, a house that she, an eighteen year old girl, hasn’t left for seventeen years.
Olly is the guy next door who struggles to deal with a father who has a habit of going into a drunken rage. Olly has just moved in to the bedroom with the window directly across from Madeline’s. He wears black, never seems capable of staying still for very long, is always doing seemingly impossible tricks, and is curious about the girl next door who he has only ever seen through a window.
From the moment she lays eyes on Olly, Madeline’s curiosity is piqued. The same seems to hold true for Olly. He begins writing mirror image notes on his window for her to read after successfully catching and keeping Madeline’s attention. Soon their mirrored notes turn into IM’s as they begin a friendship unlike any other.
With Olly’s friendship comes the ultimate price, the beginning of hope. Hope that leaves Madeline desperately wanting to go outside and live a normal life. Olly’s arrival in Madeline’s life also brings about the spark of a love so strong that it just might be worth dying for. This is the kind of love that can either kill someone like Madeline, or show her how to live.
Everything Everything, by Nicola Yoon, is a novel, and soon to be movie according to Variety magazine, with page after page of inspirational writing. The cute characters and horrifying curve balls that are thrown their way, keep the readers entranced for hours as they flip through pages in a rush to realize the conclusion of this gripping novel.