All Shades of Sadness

The story that broke the hearts of all of BookTok and captured its soul with heart-wrenching quotes. An absolute BookTok hit—over 400 million views under the hashtag. You can’t help but believe the genuine emotions this book shows. Love can either destroy you or free you. How much pain are you willing to endure for the person you love?

Brave, charismatic, and adorable Blue Henderson faces daily life hardships with a fake smile. Quiet, closed off, and mysterious Jace Boland draws her attention from the very first second. It changes their lives forever. Their incredible connection torments them, heals them, and breaks them—forcing Blue and Jace to confront the wounds of their past and try to save their relationship.

“This book kept breaking me into pieces and then putting me back together again—it was an emotional American roller coaster.” — a reader review

The word “blu” (more often written “blue” in English) can mean not only the color blue, but also gloom, depression, melancholy, sadness, and grief. The expression “blue mood” is often used in psychology and means a bad or awful mood—subdued, depressive. So this book is about shades of sadness and depression, and also about how complex the main heroine is.

Marie-France Lejeune writes stories since childhood, and now shares her works with the world. She loves reading books that pull her out of reality, but Marie herself tends to write about it. Most of her work is realistic literature based on real events and people, but she doesn’t plan to limit herself to certain genres. Marie enjoys experimenting with fantasy and thrillers, literary prose—and of course romance.

“Maybe I fell in love with who people could potentially be, not with who they really were.”