I'll Give You The Sun

Title: I'll Give You The Sun
Author: Jandy Nelson
Type: Paperback
Read: 27th September to 4th October 2015
Rating: 4/5
Published: 2nd April 2015 by Walker Books

Jude and her twin Noah were incredibly close - until a tragedy drove them apart, and now they are barely speaking. Then Jude meets a cocky, broken, beautiful boy as well as a captivating new mentor, both of whom may just need her as much as she needs them. What the twins don't realize is that each of them has only half the story and if they can just find their way back to one another, they have a chance to remake their world.

I brought this book because its bright yellow, the edge of the pages are bright yellow and at the time i was buying lots of books with pretty colourful pages. I tried reading this a while back and wasn't liking it so i left it. Picking it up again recently, I'm still torn.

The story is told is chapters by twins Noah and Jude. Noah whilst he is around 13/14 years old and Jude a few years later whilst she is sixteen years old. They're great characters but sometimes I just felt the book was too arty.

The twins know each other inside out, they're synced. They have telepathic powers and they trade parts of the world. Noah holding most of it so far. But when tragedy strikes, they fall apart. No longer speaking, they can't stand the sight of each other. Their lives are a mess. Not how they planned it. But why and how did it all happen and what can bring them back together.

I didn't really connect with either character greatly but I did enjoy reading and learning more about Jude than Noah. I was torn so much about why he was so angery and why he became someone totally different over night. The twin are great at art so this book covers a lot of that. The pages are even a mishmash of black arty things. Even some black pages throughtout the book. I perhaps liked the quirkyness of it.

I think this book is mostly aimed at teens. Possibly why when reading it, I was so bent on giving this a three. But the ending. That ending was just magical, it worked and i loved it so much. It's why it got bumped up to a four. But i wished i had that throughout the book.

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