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I'll Give You the Sun

Jandy Nelson

Start date: June 1, 2017

Finish date: June 30, 2017

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Jun 14, 2017 Tash Em rated it it was amazing

WOW. Just, WOW! I was gifted this book for Christmas last year with the premise that it was my friends ALL TIME FAVOURITE book. High expectations were set.

At the start I struggled to fully immerse myself and I feel this was because I was having issues with the whole airy-fairy magic, with Jude (view spoiler) , and all the rituals and omens to live by, just seemed hard to believe and hard to relate to. Was it metaphorical, or wa ...more

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Nov 05, 2017 Reading is my Escape rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-2017, grad-school, growing-up-issues, realistic-fiction, young-adult

I'll Give You the Sun - review
Noah and Jude are twins, and both very artistically inclined. This book follows the twins through some difficult times. It jumps back and forth between years and alternates between Noah and Jude's viewpoints.

This book deals with a lot of issues that teens might face, including questioning their sexuality, sex, death, divorce, mental health, and more. I didn't love the book, maybe because I don't usually enjoy realistic fiction. I read it for my Young Adult Litera ...more

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