The #1 New York Times bestseller and National Book Award Finalist from the bestselling author of Everything, Everything will have you falling in love with Natasha and Daniel as they fall in love with each other.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 … 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?
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”Beautifully crafted.”–People Magazine
“A book that is very much about the many factors that affect falling in love, as much as it is about the very act itself . . . fans of Yoon’s first novel, Everything Everything, will find much to love—if not, more—in what is easily an even stronger follow up.” —Entertainment Weekly
”Transcends the limits of YA as a human story about falling in love and seeking out our futures.” —POPSUGAR.com
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My favorite read of 2017.
This was very, very good. Each character — even very minor ones with only a little bit of page time — felt specific and real.
The Sun is Also a Star is definitely a very buzzy book, and was repeatedly called one of the best books of the year last year. I went in skeptical, because I didn’t love Nicola Yoon’s previous book, Everything, Everything nearly as much as other people.
But reading The Sun is Also a Star was a magical reading experience. It was a fast read, but a very important and timely one. Natasha is a 17 year-old Jamaican living in New York City with her family. They live in a small apartment, where she and her brother share the living room as a bedroom, scrape to get by, but New York is their home. The only thing is — they are undocumented, and they are about to be deported.
Natasha’s final day in NYC is a whirlwind as soon as it begins… and then she meets Daniel. This is a book about love, and immigration, and fate, and timing, and family and science and a million other things that will make you fall in love with it. Nicola Yoon is definitely an author to watch — The Sun is Also a Star was truly a joy to read!
Nicola Yoon is one of my favorite authors. I especially adore her nuanced, complex, multifaceted characters, and the way her love stories have high stakes. In “The Sun is Also a Star” we meet Natasha, a science-loving girl whose family is twelve hours away from being deported to Jamaica, and Daniel, who has always been “the good son” and “the good student,” pushing aside his own dreams to please his parents. When Natasha and Daniel’s paths collide on a crowded street in New York City, we get to experience their quickly unfolding romance over the course of a single day through their alternating perspectives. I first listened to this novel as an audiobook, and I loved it so much that I bought a print copy when I finished listening so I could read it through again on the page. And every time I read this book, even though I now know how it ends, I cry the best kind of happy tears when I get to the final page.
Another beautiful book by Nicola Yoon. She never seems to fail, but exceed my expectations. Because of both Everything, Everything an The sun is also a Star, I cannot wait for a new book!
Natasha and Daniel’s story is sweet, compelling, heartbreaking and heartwarming, and so filled with tension, I thought I’d have palpitations if they didn’t get together in the end. I’m now a firm believer in multiverses because that way there will always be a happily ever after! (young adult romance)
I’m not a fan of YA but this book is just perfect. Nicola Yoon She’s the best!!! I’ve never been and never will be disappointed by reading anything she writes. Give it a shot!
The Sun is Also a Star is a romance at heart, something that I love, being a hopeless romantic at heart as well :). The story follows two teenagers: Natasha, a budding scientist who believes in fact, truth, and research who is trying to fix her father’s mistake that could get her whole family deported to Jamaica and Daniel, a poet and believer in fate, love, and destiny who falls for Natasha at first glance and suggests that they test the idea that anyone can fall in love with certain specific questions. Through both of their perspectives, Nicola Yoon creates a bustling world with impossible coincidences that bring the two of them together again and again and force them to open up and maybe even fall in love. Be prepared for many a heart-wrenching moment, but who knows? Maybe true love is real …. 🙂
** spoiler alert ** Got this beauty in my November Uppercase box. A beautiful boy meets girl story that takes you so much deeper. This might just be one of my favorite books of 2016! I loved the way you see the young characters develop. I love that it keeps you guessing on what it going to happen but it is still within the realm of reality. I love how it jumps back and forth with a little added information in between.
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***seriously, don’t read this if you haven’t finished the book***
I love that it didn’t have the classic fairy tale ending, but still left your heart happy. The scene in the airplane about killed me with its simplicity but beauty. Freaking loved it.
Not really what I expected and I’m left behind with mixed feelings. A bit annoyance because of the very short chapters, intermezzo’s and different POV’s and on the other hand touched by the way Natasha and Daniel fall for each other and hereby discover more about themselves. It’s nicely described. What matters to one person doesn’t even get noticed by another, while your world seems too scatter someone else his/her life might be reaching highs, what seems a unimportant detail to one, can change a lot for another…
I had really high expectations for this, and I felt a little let down… Other than that, I would definitely recommend reading this novel by Nicola Yoon. I think it is important to talk about different interracial relationships, and I feel like there aren’t a lot of Black and Asian relationships, so that was definitely a good rep.
The chapters were 1-3 pages long, something I enjoyed, and the perspectives alternated between Natasha, Daniel, and other side characters.
I would say The Sun Is Also a Star is best for 13-14 year olds.
This was an amazing book, it was very realistic and it made my love expectations go over the roof, this was definitely a page turner and i love the story and meaning behind it. the ending really surprised me. but i also loved how much i related to this is lead me to another reality and i got put in her shoes.
This is a multiracial young adult romance. Daniel, a Korean American teen about to start college, meets Natasha, an immigrant from Jamaica, who is about to be deported. Daniel is immediately smitten, and they spend a whirlwind of a day in New York as Natasha attempts to find an immigration attorney who can stop the deportation.
Both kids are delightful. Daniel has a quirky sense of self-deprecating humor. He loves writing poetry. Natasha wants to study science, and thinks of everything in scientific terms. This a classic case of opposites attract.
I enjoyed the story. However, the story behind the deportation involves Natasha’s father’s appearance in the play A Raisin in the Sun, which I read earlier this year. It helped me to understand her father, as he is much like the son in the play.
The author also does a good job of showing both sides of the immigration story, with Daniel’s family being legal and Natasha’s being undocumented.
Recommended for fans of YA romance.
I loved this book. I was always smiling while reading the book: it has teen romance, partly poetry, a little drama, it was unpredictable, I didn’t know what would happen next, it kept me in suspense. It’s everything I look for in a book. 100% I recommend
I feel that the book shows you the real world and that its not all beautiful things happen when you least expect them to .
I love this book because I am Jamaican and also it has a lot of romantic things.
I loved the book, the only love at first sight I like.
this was a pretty good book. yes, i liked it. the only reason it has 4 stars instead of five is because of the excessive swearing, its like they’re doing it for fun!
I listened to the audiobook and the narrators gave me all the feels.
I enjoyed this book also. I was really thinking a lot the different characters in the book and if Daniel was going to fall in love Natasha. This was a great book. Thanks so much for writing this book.