Loved itI reread I'll Give You the Sun. Loved it the same as I did before, and then read Janney Nelson's latest.
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I'll Give You the Sun (2014)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive 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.
- ISBN:
- 9780142425763
- Length:
- 400 pages
Genres: romance, young adult
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Loved itI kept I'll Give You the Sun by Janie Nelson because I think about that book and the like adult plot lines in that book for the adult characters all the time. , so I definitely would reread that.
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Loved itI think I might have loved her previous book I'll give you the Sun a little bit more but I read that 10 years ago so I don't really remember it that well
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Loved itI'll give you this on great tear Arizona Dante and I will give you the sign or actually books they often pair together when I give to them because I think they're both what I imagined to be like literary fiction and young adult like it is just gorgeous storytelling
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Loved itThis book is magnificent. I feel like this is another one of those under-appreciated, under-talked-about contemporary books. I just always talk about how I read this whole book on a flight and I spent the whole time crying basically and listening to Civil Wars.
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Loved itI cried when I finished this book it was just so much greater like this is a very hyped book to begin with but it was so much better than I even imagined it to be
Loved itThis book, oh, it was so good. Like it was just so good. It's told in dual perspectives from twins during different times in their lives and it's just such a good story.
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Loved itI'll give you the sun was absolutely incredible so moving so emotional I cried several times.
Loved itThis book was a really great story about kind of overcoming hardship and really coming of age. and it's about two twins and they've really grown apart and it's kind of the story of them trying to make their way back to each other and it's honestly a really beautiful story and I highly recommend it.
Loved itthis was a book that i was kind of avoiding because the hype was just unreal usually when books are hyped that much they don't live up to my expectations but i finally did pick it up and it blew me away it lived up to the hype and more the reason i liked this book so much was because the writing style was very unique and very artistic