<P> One particularly bad night, Finch decides to end his life . He takes a handful of sleeping pills, but almost immediately regrets it . He goes to the emergency room and gets his stomach pumped . After that, he tries to get help through a suicide support group in a nearby town . There, he runs into Amanda, another girl he knows from school . She is concerned about Finch's suicide attempt and tells Violet about it . Violet is obviously worried and tries to help . Finch explodes, and the two get in a big fight . </P> <P> Finch runs away from home, and only Violet seems to be looking for him . He sends her mysterious texts while he visits the remainder of the locations for their unfinished project, but Violet doesn't understand them until much later . </P> <P> A month after he has disappeared, Finch sends an email to every single person he knows, saying goodbye . Violet, in a panic, figures out that he has drowned himself at the Blue Hole . She goes there and discovers she is right, and she becomes distraught . Later, she manages to decode the texts Finch had sent her, and at the last location they were supposed to visit together, Finch wrote a song for her . This helps the healing process, and convinces Violet that Finch's suicide was not her fault . The book closes with Violet going swimming by herself in the Blue Hole, where she went swimming with Finch, bringing her a sense of peace . </P> <P> The New York Times favorably compared All the Bright Places to 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 ." Entertainment Weekly and The Guardian both gave ultimately favorable reviews for the work, with The Guardian writing "Niven's first foray into Young Adult fiction lacks narrative tension but has plenty of emotional heft". </P>

What happens at the end of all the bright places