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A review by crusoe
I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
emotional
hopeful
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
For me, this was a case of right book wrong time. It took me 200 pages to get into the story but once it gripped me it was really neat and the way everything comes together at the end was very satisfying.
I'll give you the sun is a tragic story about loss and rectifying your wrong decisions. It got really bleak at points but once the ball starts rolling with Jude running into Oscar, things get better. I love the throughline of how every little quirk and detail has a connection to some predetermined destiny in which Jude was meant to meet Oscar, Noah was meant to meet Brian and Guillermo was meant to meet the twins.
I do think, especially in the beginning, that the book could've benefited from shorter chapters.
I'll give you the sun is a tragic story about loss and rectifying your wrong decisions. It got really bleak at points but once the ball starts rolling with Jude running into Oscar, things get better. I love the throughline of how every little quirk and detail has a connection to some predetermined destiny in which Jude was meant to meet Oscar, Noah was meant to meet Brian and Guillermo was meant to meet the twins.
I do think, especially in the beginning, that the book could've benefited from shorter chapters.