The Sun Is Also a Star
The #1 New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist from the bestselling author of Everything, Everything will have you falling in love with Natasha and Daniel as they fall in love with each other!
Natasha: I'm a girl who believes in science and facts. Not fate. Not destiny. Or dreams that will never come true. I'm definitely not the kind of girl who meets a cute boy on a crowded New York City street and falls in love with him. Not when my family is twelve hours away from being deported to Jamaica. Falling in love with him won't be my story. Daniel: I've always been the good son, the good student, living up to my parents' high expectations. Never the poet. Or the dreamer. But when I see her, I forget about all that. Something about Natasha makes me think that fate has something much more extraordinary in store--for both of us. The Universe: Every moment in our lives has brought us to this single moment. A million futures lie before us. Which one will come true? *** "Beautifully crafted." --People "A book that is very much about the many factors that affect falling in love, as much as it is about the very act itself. . . . Fans of Yoon's first novel, Everything Everything, will find much to love--if not, more--in what is easily an even stronger follow up." --Entertainment Weekly "Transcends the limits of YA as a human story about falling in love and seeking out our futures." --POPSUGAR.com
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Wow did not expect to enjoy this book so much. Literally read it all in one sitting, beautiful writing and beautiful story
I'm going to give this one a 4.5 star review because there's a part of me that thinks that because I'm so charmed, I've overlooked some tragic flaw. In this review, though, I'm going to focus on the 4.5 instead of the .5 of frightened doubt. The other 4.5 of this book was lovely. As I was reading it, I was thinking: "There are some romance you have to watch. There are some romances you have to read." I love watching Rose and Jack in Titanic, I love watching Rachel and Luce in Imagine Me & You, I love watching the hopeless adoration in Ewan McGregor's eyes in Moulin Rouge (goddamn but these movies get me). But I would have hated watching this book. I would have thought the movie simpering, and boring, and overwrought and overdone. I wouldn't have believed in the magic. I wouldn't have choked up several times and actually let out a weak sob at least once (the story of Joe and his smoking? Oh my god, I died of heartbreak). But I did choke up. I did believe in their magic. I was lost in their teenage romance and it was wonderful and perfect. I started this book a little after 10PM on a Thursday night and finished it a little after 1AM on a Friday morning. It has been a long time, it feels like, since I was lost in the pure, unadulterated romance of a teenage first-love story. Here I was and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Thank you, dear library, for not letting me renew this book. I was forced to get to it. Otherwise, god knows how long I would have just left it sitting there, waiting for its turn. Okay, not that long, but still.
You could read it, but please don't talk to me about it unless you too are swept away by the dark matter in the universe. Otherwise my heart might break a little, and it's done that enough recently.
This book made my heart beat wildly and I'm choosing to savor it.
Thank you, dear library, for not letting me renew this book. I was forced to get to it. Otherwise, god knows how long I would have just left it sitting there, waiting for its turn. Okay, not that long, but still.
You could read it, but please don't talk to me about it unless you too are swept away by the dark matter in the universe. Otherwise my heart might break a little, and it's done that enough recently.
This book made my heart beat wildly and I'm choosing to savor it.
Lovely story of poetry vs science, love at first sight and amazing synchronicity. Natasha is about to be deported back to Jamaica, from where she left as an 8 yr old, and Daniel is a Korean American whose immigrant parents want him to go to Yale for medicine, although he would prefer to write poetry. They meet in much more than a meet-cute. Their story provides nice back story asides.
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