The Sun Is Also a Star in Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge

Sep 25, 2019 Nadine in NY Jones rated it it was amazing

Shelves: contemporary-romance, young-adult, romance, nyc

The thing about falling is you don’t have any control on your way down.

This is ridiculously charming and fast paced and lovely and I can’t believe I waited so long to read it (but I know why I was reluctant) and I can’t believe Yoon hasn’t written anything else!! Why do you make us wait for more goodness, Ms Yoon??

I was reluctant to read this because I found Everything, Everything perfectly digestible but a bit too silly and the ending was awful. I wasn’t sure if the author was capable of a ...more

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Feb 20, 2017 Nicole Adrienne rated it really liked it

Shelves: young-adult, fiction, read-in-2017

Audiobook recording was brilliant. Three separate narrators two for the POVs and another for the storytelling chapters. i love how this book was written in that it gave history of tertiary characters. When books and films do that interconnectedness of people's lives it makes me emotional. I was a bit turned off by the insta love trope... but I'm glad I stuck with it. It wasn't so tropey after all. ...more

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Feb 28, 2017 Sarah rated it really liked it

Shelves: yafiction, yalitbookclub

This book is 1) my YA bookclub selection for March, 2) recommended as one of the best books of 2016 on Pure Wow, and 3) the perfect accompaniment to the other book I'm reading right now (which is long/smart/sci-fi/alternative history).

First, I liked the format. Short chapters, with the primary narrators interspersed with occasional other characters' perspectives.

Second, I liked the characters--two children of immigrant families. Both dealing with issues of racism and belonging and figuring out ...more

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Mar 09, 2017 Dana Berglund rated it it was amazing

Shelves: queer, youngadult, printz-winners-and-honors

Love.
Books about love, the mushy-gushy, all-encompassing kind, are not for everyone. In my real life, I don't think I'm a particularly dreamy romantic. But this book...makes me believe in their joy. The narration alternates between our two main characters--a Jamaican immigrant and science enthusiast whose family is leaving the US tonight (under threat of deportation), and the second son of Korean immigrants who is on his way to a Yale interview that he doesn't really want-- who meet rather rand ...more

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Oct 01, 2017 Meghan rated it really liked it

Just a truly charming and unique love story. This gets my #weneeddiversebooks pick for sure.

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Feb 10, 2019 Sarah rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, american-fiction, black-history-and-culture, young-adult-fiction, nyc, jamaica, korea

Nicola Yoon's books are so easy to inhale. Neither took me more than 48 hours to read. Partially it's because of the structure - short chapters, epistolary form in the shape of text messages, etc - but partially it's because of how fast the plots move. This one is the story of Natasha and Daniel, who meet and fall in love over the course of Natasha's last day in New York before she is to be deported with her family to Jamaica, where she has not lived since she was a very young child.

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Dec 23, 2016 Eunice rated it it was amazing

I love Nicola Yoon's works now as an adult, and had they existed when I was a teen, I would've been obsessed. It's so rare to see Asian-American teens portrayed with such complexity and heart. Please keep writing! ...more

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