Reviews with content warning for Violence - The Sun Is Also a Star

This was a very sweet book. I thought it was absolutely insane for these characters to meet and basically fall in love for a day but at the same time I couldn’t help but root for those crazy kids. I liked the fast pacing and multiple POVs as well; it made for a nice, quick read.

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emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

A poet and a scientist meet through fate to spend one day together falling in love. One of my favorite things about this book is that they have extra chapters sprinkled through that explain the science behind an idea or the life of a NPC that the main characters encounter. Everything is important and all the people you encounter have their own story too.

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challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

The Sun is Also a Star is such a heart-wrenching, thought-provoking story that is so spectacular its hard to believe it's contents take place over the course of a single day. The main characters, while a little cheesily obnoxious in their personalities at the start, grow to learn from one another as their backstories and perspectives deepen. The storyline is particularly relatable to me as an immigrant living in America and to have experienced such impactful love through the ties I've made here, with the constant underlying fear that I will have to leave again one day. The morals along following your dreams and learning to love, whilst also recognising that life can take you anywhere and you can't rely on one single aspect, person, or place to determine your future, certainly hit home and make for such interesting reading.

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emotional funny hopeful slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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musicmagician823's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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paigespages08's review against another edition

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challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I enjoyed this one a lot, maybe a touch more than Everything Everything. We meet Natasha, probably at the worst moment of her life. Her and her family are being deported from the US due to being undocumented Jamaican immigrants.

We meet Daniel, about to emb on potentially the biggest day of his life, an entrance interview to a prestigious university.

The narration flits between Natasha and Daniels POV, small snippets from other characters, along with chapters that explain words, and meanings that come up throughout the story.

Natasha and Daniel don’t know one another and meet by chance, some would call fate, Natasha wouldn’t. Daniel would. What progresses is one of the most beautiful love stories I have read. I loved both the characters and their backgrounds and families were complex and relatable.

I felt as if I was both Natasha and Daniel, agreeing and disagreeing at the different and same points throughout.

The book was thoughtful, heartfelt, sad and in parts,happy.

I am definitely a Nicola Yoon fan and I can not wait to read more of her!

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adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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