I’ll give you the sun | Review

TITLE: I’ll give you the sun AUTHOR: Jandy Nelson RATING: ★★★★★ / 5 GOODREADS

I just finished I‘ll give you the sun and all I wanna do is flip the book over, open it on the first page and read it all over again. This book was insane and I’m so madly, deeply and completely in love with it. There do not exist enough adjectives in the english language for me to describe what this book was like, what I went through and how experiencing Noah and Jude’s story felt like.
I’ve this spot in my heart, where I keep all those special books, I really love, super tightly to me. And I’ll give you the sun, is the next book that’s going to move into that spot. That story was so different, mind-opening and intense, it’s about so many different things. Destiny, art, love, hate, forgiveness, loss, changes, conflicts, growing up – it’s about life. And that’s what I love about it. It’s not just one topic, it doesn’t focus on one story, it shows so many stories in one, so many different people, so many different kinds of love. It talks about life, life in all its facets.

— Me, a few minutes after I finished I’ll give you the sun

I’ll give you the sun is alternately written in two different perspectives. At first we have the 13 year old boy Noah, who calls himself a revolutionary, is completely into art and pretty much alone. His twin sister Jude tells her story at the age of 16, means three years later. Jude is, with 13 years old the talkative one of the twins, she’s popular, likes surfing and lets the sand sculptures she creates – her kind of art – be destroyed by the waves, before anyone can see them. With 16 years both twins have changed a lot. Jude cut off her long, blond hair, talks to her dead grandmother and goes to an art school. Whereas Noah hangs around with the cool kids and has destroyed every art he ever made. There’s this huge wall between the twins, made of lies, anger and jealousy, which is keeping them from how it used to be between them. And both have a hard time dealing with what is going on in their life, on their own.

To be honest when I started with the book I wasn’t really sure if I’m going to like it or not. The way it’s written is pretty hard to understand at the beginning, especially because the author is using a lot of metaphors. At first you honestly think you’re reading some sort of magical novel, especially because Jude and her mother are both really into this spiritual stuff. But I didn’t gave up and the deeper I got into the story the more I loved it and the more I understood what it’s about. I especially liked how the chapters change between Noah and Jude in a different state of their life. Whenever I ended one chapter I was like “ugh no I wanna know what’s happening next and not in the other twins life”, but then that chapter was also so good that I didn’t want it to end either and this way the book got actually pretty exciting. Moreover I enjoyed the way it’s written, even though it was sometimes hard to understand.

As it says on the cover “love is only half the story”. But oh man, how I LOVED those two love stories, especially Noah’s one. Because Noah falls in love with that guy, who’s moving in next door and ahhh. Loved, loved, loved these two. Just love. When I think about it, I actually never read a book where the main character is a boy, who falls in love with another boy. Probably because I mainly read stories with female protagonists. But now I’m like why the hell? I definitely need more books with a love story between two boys haha. Anyways, I don’t wanna say too much but I FREAKING SHIP THESE TWO SO MUCH I CANT BREATH. Puh okay, enough fangirling for today