The Sun is Also a Star

By: Nicola Yoon

My Rating: 5 solid stars!

Review!!!

This was the 4th book I’d picked up in 2019 (as an ebook) and I read it in one day. If I could’ve finished it in one sitting would’ve! I chose it as a recommendation from booktubers, Nai’a from “Naya Reads and Smiles” and Hannah from “A Clockwork Reader.”

When I tell you this book made me cry a river, I’m not exaggerating. This was phenomenal! It was solid Gold. I wouldn’t change a single thing. It was everything I never knew I wanted in a book and then some. I mean Nicola Yoon’s writing is SUPREME. It was poetic, and graceful and just a joy to read honestly.

The intricacy of this story is unmatched. I mean the insight into every single character’s life and the exploration of the intersection between all of their lives, it was incredible. Nicola wills you to form a bond with almost every character because she allows us a glimpse of each character’s unfiltered life in a given circumstance. The representation of a predominantly POC ‘cast’ if I should call it was also a very welcome breath of fresh air.

Now the character of Daniel, I mean the level of relatability I felt towards him was like nothing I’ve ever had the pleasure of reading before. He was smart and kind and empathetic and honest and flawed and raw and just everything I would want in a character. At a point it almost Felt like Nicola Yoon had looked into the depths of my soul or at parts of my life and designed the character of Daniel.

THE SUN IS ALSO A STAR is one of my favourite books of all time. It has to be.

It was too relatable and intricate for it not to be. You know those books that you get at the exact moment in your life when you need them? This was it. This book came to me when I needed it the most and I shall forever be grateful to Nicola and her gift of storytelling.

“Natasha Looks up. Time stumbles back into place. The plane and the seats re-form. The passengers solidify into flesh. And blood. And bone. And heart. Daniel, she says”

It’s truly a love story that will stand the test of time. At least for all my time to come. But it isn’t merely just a love story. It’s so much more. It’s a mixture of hope and love and disappointment and fate and just magic.

It is such an honest depiction of a moment in time and the circumstances we’re dealt building up to the people we are and end up with that it’s a little hard to believe that its fiction.

This book left me hopeful. It gave me a realistic yet childlike kind of faith. Basically, if Natasha and Daniel had a child, I would be her. Dramatic some would say but it was an incredible experience reading this to say the very least.

Daniel and Natasha, Miguel and Irene: You have my heart forever.

Nicola Yoon really did that!

Sincerely,

Sometimes She Writes