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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4.5 star read about fate, culture, immigration, life, and love. A quote lover’s dream.
I can’t religiously agree with this characters and Natasha was just too critical!!! Everything, Everything is so much better and I recommend that one instead.
Absolutely wonderful
Meh, I guess I get the appeal of two young people who fall in love even though they seemingly only have one day to be together; but this one just wasn’t for me. Daniel came off as a dork and Natasha seemed like an arrogant know-it-all who takes life WAY too seriously. DNF at about 30%.
I would like to thank NetGalley for providing me with an arc for this book I really appreciate it! I really really wanted to love this book but after Everything Everything this really didn’t live up to it, or Everything Everything wasn’t that good maybe my rose tinted glasses have gone. Who knows why I didn’t like this one much but I really didn’t which was very sad. I don’t know whether YA Contemporary is just no longer for me and that I’ve outgrown it or whether I just didn’t like it.
Some of the things that happened in this book I just didn’t like the story was nice and I could even ignore the insta-love it was a nice cute story I just didn’t really like it. It didn’t wow me like Everything Everything did. I felt sometimes some of the issues that were raised was very childish and kind of I don’t know whether pathetic is the right word but that. In the face of being deported, you would sort of expecting different reactions but that wasn’t the case and the book didn’t really give any solutions for Natasha not to be deported it was just all her options were gone and she’s going. I wish we could have seen her going through that process and the story be spread over one time rather than a day. I felt like the story could have been a million times better than it was.
I really liked how this book was so diverse and both the main characters being diverse that was really nice. I didn’t really have an opinion on these characters and I think this is where my main meh comes from with this book and is that I didn’t care about these characters. The story did nothing to make me care about them so I really didn’t care what happened to them or whether they got together or whether she stayed in America or whether he didn’t get into the 2nd best college. I just I didn’t care.
Now I know that sounds bad, just because I didn’t care doesn’t mean it wasn’t good. It was good, it was just nice. Which isn’t a bad thing but I just not for me I don’t think which is sad. The book was nice and I wasn’t really wowed or anything by it. This would have been longer but I don’t really have anything else to say about this book.
I LOVED this book, likely because of my unique point of view.
I am an immigrant, and the two main characters are a Korean-American, struggling with his parents’ heritage, and an illegal immigrant, being deported back to Jamaica.
Immigrants are people just like everybody else, and I hope this book will help many readers familiarize with those realities.
The romance, though very YA (with the love at first sight and the meant-to-be stuff), was compelling, sweet, and funny.
This is a book about empathy, about getting angry at the next person and then being forced to see their point of view, what made them behave that way.
We all have reasons, some more compelling than others.
I would recommend this novel to everyone, specifically nowadays.
What I think about this book is amazing. The title of the book is interesting. It has a mix of first person and second person POV. The two main characters, Natasha and Daniel, are great. There are some pages that have history and stories of other characters including the main characters’ parents. The ending is not what I expected but it is good.
What I think about this book is amazing. The title of the book is interesting. It has a mix of first and third person POV. The two main characters, Natasha and Daniel, are great. There are some pages that have history and stories of other characters including the main characters’ parents. The ending is not what I expected but it is good.
I read this book on a teenage granddaughter’s recommendation. Though it is in the “young adult” section of the library, I loved it, and think other readers of any age from 14 and up would too. It gives a clear picture of what life is like from the point of view of immigrants, documented or undocumented, in New York City. The author also tells you about the inner feelings of other people in the city. If I tell you more, I’ll spoil the story, so let me just say “Read it. You’ll like it.”
I’m tough to please, but I really enjoyed this book. There are sentences that wow’d me, ideas that made me think deeply, and a real energy to the love story between these two teenagers. I love that the main characters are not your every day super-sexy Caucasian characters but a male Korean-American poet and a female Jamaican science nerd (who also happens to be an illegal immigrant)!
Perfect for fans of Romeo and Juliet, this modern retelling of the classic contains similar themes. Natasha and Daniel, two teens of immigrant parents should have something in common instead, their backgrounds are worlds apart. Fate brings them together over and over again against all odd and in spite of their troubling circumstances but can they overcome their parent’s influence to build a life together? Love, at first sight, should be thrilling instead it is complicated and messy in this amazing story.
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It was very realistic, but it was sweet.
Quick read. Young love, romance for middle schoolers. Characters are minorities of different races so it addresses the problems these folks face also. I would have loved to have read this as a teenager.
Absolutely loved this book and of course I feel in love with it! Nicola Yoon creates a realistic story that has me believing that I could find a perfect romance like the one in this book. Definitely worth a read if your a teenager that loves contemporary romance.