i'll give you the sun ✵ j.nelson


At first, Jude and her twin brother Noah, are inseparable. Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude wears red-red lipstick, cliff-dives, and does all the talking for both of them. Years later, they are barely speaking. Something has happened to change the twins in different yet equally devastating ways . . . but then Jude meets an intriguing, irresistible boy and a mysterious new mentor. The early years are Noah's to tell; the later years are Jude's. But they each have only half the story, and if they can only find their way back to one another, they'll have a chance to remake their world. (Source: GoodReads)

 If you've learned how to read (which I hope because otherwise this blog must be very unuseful for you), then GOOD, because then you could (and, I cannot stress this enough, should) read Jandy Nelson's "I'll give you the sun". 
"But Havana Banana, I'm not a young adult?"
- FEAR NOT, my not so young adult (old adult?), we all know that YA-books can (and should) be read by adults as well (because OMG, they're the best???), and this YA-novel is no exception. Trust me, you're gonna want to read this one.

 This, ladies and gents. is one of my all-time favourite YA-novel, and here's why:
"Yes. Yes, yes, y e s!!!! This is it, the YA-genre has peaked. It does not get better than this!!"
 - Me, half way through Nelson's "I'll Give You the Sun".

 No. No, no no nononono. Wait. Wait wait waitwait a seco-, wha-" 
- Me, 0,4 seconds after reading the last page of Nelson's "I'll Give You the Sun".
[Nelly Furtado's 'All Good Things (Come To An End)' plays softly in the background]

 Why, you may ask? This book will give you the worst kind of Book-Hangover (yes, that's a thing). When I finished this book, all I could do was to stare into nothing and have an existential crisis (so, yeah, totally read this book!). Everything about this novel is just brilliant (and sad, and exciting, and emotional and heartbreaking and completely, completely wonderful).

 Meet Noah, meet June, they are twins. At first they're inseparable, trading the world between each other until they're not anymore. You'll read every other chapter in present time, from June's POV and the other three years ago, from Noah's POV. In between these three years, a lot, everything has changed between them.

 This isn't going to be your action filled, drama, drama, drama novel. This is something bigger and more beautiful. With this novel you'll get to know all kinds of love; first love, siblings' love, a father's love, old love that never died, the love for art, the kind of love where all you have to do is to give up the world - and it'll be the easiest thing you'll ever have to do.

 This is an extraordinary reading experience, don't miss out.
Happy reading!
You find the book here: Bokus, Adlibris, Akademibokhandeln or at your local public library

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