Review: Everything by Jeri Williams
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 21, 2014
Falling into the category of contemporary new adult fiction, Everything was a book I liked overall. It's set in Florida, in a little town called Shaddy Grove, between Miami and Orlando. For me, the thing that really made the book enjoyable were the characters. While the book does not end on a cliffhanger, there are enough subplots in the story that were left unresolved, and I'm curious enough about those to want to read the second book.22 year old Dacey was one of the two main characters, and I took an instant liking to her, but what had me smiling at various points throughout the book were her interactions with her 18 year old step-sister called Aria. They were such a great pair of characters to read about, and I grew to care about what happened to them, and at one point I was close to tears. They were funny, but when they needed each other, they were there for one another. I also thought the secondary characters, especially Aunt Opal and Mr. Eugene, along with Dacey's best friend Justina and her mother Mrs. D were fleshed out well, along with Officer Justin Parks.While I enjoyed the book, one of the things that took me out of the story on various occasions were the typos and grammatical errors that I noticed as I was reading the book. Aside from that, I thought the storyline was good, and the characters felt real as well. I'll give Everything a rating of 4/5 platypires.