Nicola Yoon

The dazzling new novel from Nicola Yoon, the New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything Natasha: I'm a girl who believes in science and facts. Not fate. Not destiny. Or dreams that will never come true. I'm definitely not the kind of girl who meets a cute boy on a crowded New York City street and falls in love with him. Not when my family is twelve hours away from being deported to Jamaica. Falling in love with him won't be my story. Daniel: I've always been the good son, the good student, living up to my parents' high expectations. Never the poet. Or the dreamer. But when I see her, I forget about all that. Something about Natasha makes me think that fate has something much more extraordinary in store-for both of us. The Universe: Every moment in our lives has brought us to this single moment. A million futures lie before us. Which one will come true?

The Sun is Also a Star

Aww I just wanna hug her so she feels irie :/

Atli 💗🧚🏽‍♀️

The truth is, she’s been thinking about killing herself on and off for years. In Cobain’s lyrics she finally finds the words. She writes a suicide note addressed to no one: “Oh well. Whatever. Nevermind.”

People say these things to make sense of the world. Secretly, in their heart of hearts, almost everyone believes that there’s some meaning, some willfulness to life. Fairness. Basic decency. Good things happen to good people. Bad things only happen to bad people. No one wants to believe that life is random. 

oof... i cannot imagine how hard this kind of life must be :/

“Your family’s last appeal was rejected. The deportation stands, Ms. Kingsley. You and your family will have to leave tonight at ten p.m.”

well, yes. people are out here naming their kids slim easy (wtf??) and rumble honey. like are you slow? these are real humans who are going to hate you bro 😭

She had this feeling that in America names didn’t mean anything, not like they did in Korea. In Korea, the family name came first and told the entire history of your ancestry

DANIEL IS RIGHT ABOUT CHARLES. He’s an asshole through and through. Some people grow out of their lesser natures, but Charles will not. He will settle into it, the skin that was always going to be his. 

Chenay Kamara

Maryn 

Aparna

🍫 November is almost over and this is the last book of the month and it's always been wonderful to immerse myself in a book away from the world.
 Thankyou @im_perfect_in_tro_vert for lending me such a wonderful book,and @nicolayoon Thank you for a wonderful story💖.
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The Sun is also a star -@nicolayoon Hola #bookstagram family.In this book,the way love is expressed is so fresh,cute and impressive.
It's a coming of age novel involving two immigrants to America from two very different parts of the world one a Jamaican Natasha and the other a Korean-American Daniel. There meeting happens on a crowded New York City street.
And how they make changes in each other's lives.
How their lives will be the day after their meeting?
How their families are different in various aspects?
There are strong use of language here and there.
It is very hard to find a story involving two interracial people.
I am in awe with how Ms.Yoon kept the story in each of the characters perspective not affecting the flow of the storyline 💖.
For #bookstagrammers like me this must be in your #toberead list.
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#Qotd: what's up this weekend guys?Did you complete a long pending task lately?
What have you been up to this November?

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Deepika Ramesh

dulce yasmin 

Es un libro precioso con un historia hermosa, amo la manera en que las diferentes historias y detalles de otros personajes se van entrelazando entre sí, me encantó 
4.5 ⭐️

★★★★ // “our history is too compressed. we’re trying to fit a lifetime into a day."

The epilogue made me cry oh gosh.
Review tomorrow.

*Now a major film starring Yara Shahidi and Charles Melton* The New York Times bestselling love story from Nicola Yoon, author of Everything, Everything. Natasha: I’m a girl who believes in science and facts. Not fate. Not destiny. Or dreams that will never come true. I’m definitely not the kind of girl who meets a cute boy on a crowded New York City street and falls in love with him. Not when my family is twelve hours away from being deported to Jamaica. Falling in love with him won’t be my story. Daniel: I’ve always been the good son, the good student, living up to my parents’ high expectations. Never the poet. Or the dreamer. But when I see her, I forget about all that. Something about Natasha makes me think that fate has something much more extraordinary in store—for both of us. The Universe: Every moment in our lives has brought us to this single moment. A million futures lie before us. Which one will come true?

The Sun is also a Star

diya

the whole book is beautiful, for someone new to the world of stoicism and yet leaning towards the definition of fate, every step of the way made me smile. but, there was a but in it for me, hence the docking of a star.

roro

oh my god... i didn’t really start getting into the book until like towards the middle but it’s so beautiful and that ending...

Nina Verhaaff 

I almost gave this book a 1 star
I get that the whole story, the whole takes place in one day. Normally I would Nicola Yoon her books higher than this. But this book didn't interest me so much. 
The instant love that takes place and it's just one day, it is faith this and destiny this and we are meant to be that. Also, the opposites attract trope is in here.
The only positive thing I have about this book is that it wasn't that boring that I could not read it at all, it did have some interesting things. I loved the nirvana reference in the book.

Melissa Palmer

Book #105 Read in 2016
The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon

I love Yoon's book Everything Everything and was excited for a chance to review her new one and it did not disappoint. Natasha is a teenage girl, a undocumented immigrant, a believer of science and not love. Daniel is a Korean American teenage boy with the soul of a poet, even though he is supposedly going to college to become a doctor. The two meet, connect and dare we say fall in love? Is it love? Fate? Destiny? The ending totally makes this book....read it! I received a copy of this book from Amazon Vine in exchange for a honest review. Loved it.

Raven K

THIS! BOOK! IS! WORTH! MORE! THAN! FIVE! STARS!!

Amena Elkayal

4.5 / 5

Quotes:

-	Names are powerful things. They act as an identity marker and a kind of map, locating you in time and geography. More than that, they can be a compass.

-	People spend their whole lives looking for love. Poems and songs and entire novels are written about it. But how can you trust something that can end as suddenly as it begins?

-	We are born to dream and make the things we dream about.


-	Life is just a series of dumb decisions and indecisions and coincidences that we choose to ascribe meaning to.

-	We think we want all the time in the world with the people we love, but maybe what we need is the opposite. Just a finite amount of time, so we still think the other person is interesting. Maybe we don’t need acts two and three. Maybe love is best in act one.


-	Some people exist in your life to make it better. Some people exist to make it worse.

-	Hearts don’t break.
It’s just another thing the poets say.
Hearts are not made
Of glass
Or bone
Or any material that could
Splinter
Or Fragment
Or Shatter.
They don’t
Crack Into Pieces.
They don’t
Fall Apart.
Hearts don’t break.
They just stop working.
An old watch from another time and no parts to fix it.

-	People make mistakes all the time. Small ones, like you get in the wrong
checkout line. The one with the lady with a hundred coupons and a checkbook.
Sometimes you make medium-sized ones. You go to medical school instead
of pursuing your passion.
Sometimes you make big ones. You give up.

-	Almost everything in the night sky gives off light.
Even if we can’t see it, the light is still there.

Madhuri Kasam

One of the best books that I've ever heard.

Selene Esper

You know the kind of books that just leave you with repressed emotional trauma after you're done with them? This is one such book. Top-tier. Nicola Yoon is right up there with authors like John Green and Neil Gaiman.

The Sun Is Also a Star Movie Tie-in Edition

Briar's Reviews

The Sun is Also a Star is a super sweet, romantic tale of two strangers falling in love.

I had no idea what I was in for when I picked up this book. I do love a hopeless romantic type book, but I didn't know that I was going to love it this much! The shock and surprise I had when I was instantly glued to this book was MASSIVE. I couldn't believe that a contemporary YA romance novel could hold me so well. Books like this haven't held me this close since my high school days! Nicola Yoon did a great job!

So, we have Natasha - a more scientific - who is trying to find a way to stay in America since her family is being deported to Jamaica. Then we have Daniel - a hopeless romantic - who is trying to figure out what to do in life since he wants to be a poet but his traditional Korean parents want him to be a doctor. These two meet on accident and teach each other how to fall in love.

This book is just so sweet. The story takes place over a couple days, and we see these two love birds accept their fate. It's almost a Romeo and Juliet tale, minus the death part. They are from two worlds and might not be the best couple to meet at this very moment. 

If you are the hopeless romantic type who loves cheesey romance then this book is for you. It's not a book that I'd solely stick in the YA pot either, it's easily a book adults can enjoy. The only big YA thing is that the leads are young adults. Romance like this doesn't need to be stuck on the YA shelf in our local bookstores. Throw it up on the YA shelf, the Romance shelf and the Contemporary shelf. This book is all around lovely! And the epilogue gives a lot of hope!!

On another note, the original cover of this book is ridiculously beautiful. Don't get started on me that the movie cover is cool as well, it is, but I always like the original covers better. It's just so pretty!

Overall, I think this book is fun! I really enjoyed this novel and I will definitely be trying to grab more books by Nicola Yoon in the future. Her writing style, flow and tone matched so well with my reading style. I'm blown away! I need more books that pull me in like this in my life right now! So great! And I can finally watch the movies now! I'm one of those losers that wants to read the book first. Now I gotta get my hands on a copy of that DVD...

Five out of five stars.

it is a fast read but even then the end rips your heart out

Floor van Heel 

Geraldine Alatriste López

I actually think it's more of a 3.5, i really liked it and thought that it was a fun read however i was not as invested or attached to both of the characters but the ending, the ending was just like, wow, i was not expecting that at all

At first, I would’ve referred to this book as extremely overrated. After finishing it, I have to reconsider that analysis. It took a while to get into, but it’s worth it just for the contrast in character personalities! I can’t fathom how the two got along so well, as they saw the world through very different eyes. Overall, it was a very original story of love and loss, of coming together and drifting apart, and of the different workings of the brain that make us who we are. 

Katie

4 stars - cute & informative. Despite this being an instalove story, I liked the book. Liked the writing style. The (main) characters were likeable (except for Charlie lol fuck him) 

Joy KBA

Victoria

I must say, I actually like this book. I'm still trying to pull together all my thoughts on it so my review will be posted up on the blog sometime soon.

Megan O’Connod

Go read it. Go read it now. 
I need help. 
I cannot breath. 
I laughed and scoffed when Ross told me that this book changed his life. 
But now I am looking around my lecture theatre as my lecture is about to start and I'm surprised at how everyone is going about their normal day. 
It has changed my perspective on a lot of things. I can't wait until Ross is finished school and we can talk.

Joana da Silva

I put off reading this book for years because I'd already seen the movie 357x, so the story wasn't going to surprise me. Oh, but it did. There are so many cute details, some of them included in the movie, others not and this experience was so much better because of them. A very cute, fast-paced read, perfect for getting over a reading slump and restoring some faith in love and the universe.

I listened to the audiobook of this, basically just for something to do while I packed and moved house. I kept listening to small bits, getting distracted, and then listening to the same bits again because it just didn't grip me. Probably nothing to do with the writing or plot, rather me shying away from YA.

I finally went back to the audiobook of it today, just to tie up loose ends before the end of the month and for something to listen to while I travelled to the opticians and back.

The plot felt very unrealistic and didn't really grip me fully. The characters had no development. The writing was really interesting, drawing on a science v fate debate, but it was the only part that interested me.

Victoria Justice

I listened to the audiobook of this, basically just for something to do while I packed and moved house. I kept listening to small bits, getting distracted, and then listening to the same bits again because it just didn't grip me. Probably nothing to do with the writing or plot, rather me shying away from YA.

I finally went back to the audiobook of it today, just to tie up loose ends before the end of the month and for something to listen to while I travelled to the opticians and back.

The plot felt very unrealistic and didn't really grip me fully. The characters had no development. The writing was really interesting, drawing on a science v fate debate, but it was the only part that interested me.

Beatrix Haase

Seriously trying to plow through this book as fast as I could. Really enjoyed it though. Absolutely beautiful as the story progresses. 

xoxo,
Bebe

Koi No Yokan is a Japanese saying, and by definition it is the sense one can have upon first meeting a person that the two of you are going to fall in love. Daniel taught me this and turns out, that was also how I felt for this book. I had a feeling that I was going to fall in love with it before I read it, and turns out I was right. 

The chemistry between Daniel and Natasha was something that I haven't seen in a while, it was just perfect and charming and I am so in love with their love. I love their contrasting personalities, I love them as individuals, they're both amazing characters. 

I also loved the way the book was written. I never wanted to skim at any point, everything was beautifully described yet also straight to the point and easy to visualise. I knew what was happening at all times, which is to be honest, quite rare. I also loved the mini backstories about the characters that would deem to be insignificant if it were not for the backstories. 

The mini backstories, let's talk about that. They had to be one of my favourite things about this book. I've always loved the idea that we are all connected and that everything happened for a reason and everyone appears in your life for a reason, whether it be your barista or someone offering you flyers at the mall. Also that everyone around you had a story to tell. Those were two ideas that I've always loved, and the fact that this book is literally based on those two things, it just completely blew me away. 

The entire story, from start to finish, never slowed down and I never wanted it to. The storyline was simple in the best way possible, I just really loved it. And that ending? Oh my god, that ending. I squealed a little. This book had my heart fluttering and it made me smile a lot. (view spoiler)[It also broke my heart just a little bit but then everything worked out so I'm all good.  (hide spoiler)]

Overall I'd give this book more than a full five starred review if I could because I loved it that much but sadly, I can't. It's a beautiful book with a beautiful story and beautiful characters, that's it.

The Sun is Also a Star

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