I'll Give You The Sun by Jandy NelsonPages: 371
Format: Hardback
Source: Purchased
Buy It: Amazon • The Book Depository • Goodreads
My Rating: 5/5 Stars
"A brilliant, luminous story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal for fans of John Green, David Levithan, and Rainbow Rowell
Jude and her twin brother, Noah, are incredibly close. At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude cliff-dives and wears red-red lipstick and does the talking for both of them. But three years later, Jude and Noah are barely speaking. Something has happened to wreck the twins in different and dramatic ways . . . until Jude meets a cocky, broken, beautiful boy, as well as someone else—an even more unpredictable new force in her life. The early years are Noah's story to tell. The later years are Jude's. What the twins don't realize is that they each have only half the story, and if they could just find their way back to one another, they’d have a chance to remake their world.
This radiant novel from the acclaimed, award-winning author of The Sky Is Everywhere will leave you breathless and teary and laughing—often all at once." -Synopsis from Goodreads
THOUGHTS:
Oh. My. Goodness. People. THIS BOOK WAS AMAZING!!!!! ah where to even start??? The writing was unlike anything I've ever read before. It was so poetic and artsy and beautiful ahh Jandy Nelson you are a writing god. The characters were all amazing and they all developed beautifully and it was just so amazing to read about them. This book is told in the perspective of about 13 year old Noah and 16 year old Jude (they are twins but they tell perspectives from different times). At first I was unsure about how the story would come together with these different perspectives but oh boy does it work. And it works well. We get information that we can start to put together ourselves before we're actually told. It was beautiful. I just can't even express how much I love this book. I read it last month and I already want to re-read it. Oscar was so swoony like he's British and a bad boy and he's exactly like Noah Shaw aka bae <3 ahem what? hehe. Anyways, it was so interesting reading about Jude and Noah and how their relationship changed and developed as they grew up. I also loved Grandma Sweetwine's "bible" thing and how religiously Jude used it. Noah was also amazing and seeing his inner struggle with his feelings made me v sad but so hopeful for him because I could see him becoming stronger and more confident. Noah's artsy-ness also was so nice to read and his perspective was so poetic especially when he did the "Portrait:..." thing. So friggin good. Everyone must read this book. Seriously. This is definitely one of my favourite books and possibly my favourite contemporary novel. I recommend it to everyone.
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QUOTES:
“Meeting your soul mate is like walking into a house you've been in before - you will recognize the furniture, the pictures on the wall,the books on the shelves, the contents of drawers: You could find your way around in the dark if you had to.”
“I love you,” I say to him, only it comes out, “Hey.”
“So damn much,” he says back, only it comes out, “Dude.”
He still won’t meet my eyes.”
“I gave up practically the whole world for you,” I tell him, walking through the front door of my own love story. “The sun, stars, ocean, trees, everything, I gave it all up for you.”
“When people fall in love, they burst into flames.”
“Quick, make a wish.
Take a (second or third or fourth) chance.
Remake the world.”
“His soul might be a sun. I’ve never met anyone who had the sun for a soul.”
“We were all heading for each other on a collision course, no matter what. Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.”
“No hot guy should be allowed to have an English accent and drive a motorcycle.
Not to mention wear the leather jacket or sport the cool shades. Hot guys should be forced into footie pajamas.”
“And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? Like they should be awarded the Nobel Prize for a simple greeting?”
“My heart leaves, hitchhikes right out of my body, heads north, catches a ferry across the Bering Sea and plants itself in Siberia with the polar bears and ibex and long-horned goats until it turns into a teeny-tiny glacier.
Because I imagined it.”
“I love you,” I say to him, only it comes out, “Hey.”
“So damn much,” he says back, only it comes out, “Dude.”
He still won’t meet my eyes.”
“I gave up practically the whole world for you,” I tell him, walking through the front door of my own love story. “The sun, stars, ocean, trees, everything, I gave it all up for you.”
“When people fall in love, they burst into flames.”
“Quick, make a wish.
Take a (second or third or fourth) chance.
Remake the world.”
“His soul might be a sun. I’ve never met anyone who had the sun for a soul.”
“We were all heading for each other on a collision course, no matter what. Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.”
“No hot guy should be allowed to have an English accent and drive a motorcycle.
Not to mention wear the leather jacket or sport the cool shades. Hot guys should be forced into footie pajamas.”
“And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? Like they should be awarded the Nobel Prize for a simple greeting?”
“My heart leaves, hitchhikes right out of my body, heads north, catches a ferry across the Bering Sea and plants itself in Siberia with the polar bears and ibex and long-horned goats until it turns into a teeny-tiny glacier.
Because I imagined it.”
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-Ana :)
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