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4.31 AVERAGE
4.31 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
funny
mysterious
medium-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
“No, people don’t, because they’re not revolutionaries like us.
This book definitely gave me something more than the sun. Welcome to my favorite shelf, new pal.
This book definitely gave me something more than the sun. Welcome to my favorite shelf, new pal.
*4.5
I'm overwhelmed by how much I loved this book. I can't believe I waited 4 years to finally pick it up.
The writing style SUCKED ME IN. It had that touch of magic... Or should I say it was just the character's overactive imagination. I instantly fell in love with Noah and Jude and their journey through grief and heartbreak.
This book is definitely more character driven. I can't say that there's an explicit plot. We're just getting a glimpse into their lives. We see them at 13 through Noah's eyes, and then at 16 through Jude's eyes. I drove me to tears to see how broken they'd become and how they put themselves back together.
A beautiful story about family and love and grief.
I also loved how the stories weaved themselves together and how everything came together in the end. So well done.
The only thing that knocked off a half star was Jude's relationship with her love interest. I was on board with it until the end. I wish their relationship had been handled better. Teen relationships with age gaps are really hard to nail and more often than not, they're not handled well.
Noah's relationship with his love interest, however, was amazing. It wasn't a perfect relationship, but that's what made it believable. Kids make mistakes when they're angry or upset and it's a hard world to figure out your sexuality too.
Also.... Can we talk about that ENDING???? I was screaming with joy. Okay Okay. Great book, go read.
I'm overwhelmed by how much I loved this book. I can't believe I waited 4 years to finally pick it up.
The writing style SUCKED ME IN. It had that touch of magic... Or should I say it was just the character's overactive imagination. I instantly fell in love with Noah and Jude and their journey through grief and heartbreak.
This book is definitely more character driven. I can't say that there's an explicit plot. We're just getting a glimpse into their lives. We see them at 13 through Noah's eyes, and then at 16 through Jude's eyes. I drove me to tears to see how broken they'd become and how they put themselves back together.
A beautiful story about family and love and grief.
I also loved how the stories weaved themselves together and how everything came together in the end. So well done.
The only thing that knocked off a half star was Jude's relationship with her love interest. I was on board with it until the end. I wish their relationship had been handled better. Teen relationships with age gaps are really hard to nail and more often than not, they're not handled well.
Noah's relationship with his love interest, however, was amazing. It wasn't a perfect relationship, but that's what made it believable. Kids make mistakes when they're angry or upset and it's a hard world to figure out your sexuality too.
Also.... Can we talk about that ENDING???? I was screaming with joy. Okay Okay. Great book, go read.
I didn't actually read it. I read the first 100 pages and then skimmed the rest. I just couldn't get into this bizarre style of writing. Everything was too metaphorical. I wish I could take this off my "read" list since I didn't even read all of it, but I'm not sure how. lol
“All that matters is the worlds I can make, not this toilet-licking one I have to live in. In the worlds I make, anything can happen. Anything.”
I wanted to wait until an appropriate hour to write but I just couldn't. My heart is bursting and my soul is soaring.
This book doesn't deserve five stars. It deserves the entire freaking sun. I'll give it the sun.
“He carries pieces of the galaxy around in a bag.”
“Then our eyes meet and we both crack up like we’re made of the same air.”
“the enchantment of him feeding my very cells”
One of the most beautiful, compelling, transformative writings I've ever read.
“His soul might be a sun. I’ve never met anyone who had the sun for a soul.”
I was so enthralled with every word and the vivid, incredible descriptions Noah made that I didn't have time to think about what I wanted to happen, and then exactly what I would have unknowingly hoped for did. Except so much better than I could have imagined. (the happy parts indeed, the sad ones felt like a blow to my chest)
“Probably only kids whose blood glows. Only revolutionaries.”
Noah is magic, he really is. I felt everything with him, every emotion was so real, it filled my every cell.
I could feel all the giddiness, hope, excitement, wonder. And I could feel the writhing in his stomach; the unbearable pressure in his chest; the anger, red hot, welling up; the despair; his fingertips aching with the uselessness. It washed over me like ocean waves, and I barely managed to come up for air.
I saw so much of myself in him, and at the same time I saw everything I wanted to be.
“But what if I don’t need her permission, her approval, her praise to be who I want to be and do what I love? What if I’m in charge of my own damn light switch?”
Everything about this book was magic. The unquenchable passion for art, the split-aparts, the soul connections, the ecstatic impulse, Noah's mind.
“I didn’t know that family members could just find each other, choose each other like they have.”
And there's so much more I'd say, how i highlighted 99% of this book, how much Noah inspired me, how I loved every detail and character's quirks, how it kept on surprising me, how much I related to noah's struggle with his dad and his ever present mind painting, NoahAndJude, Noah and Jude, the incredibly fascinating, and surprisingly loving, Guillermo, Oscar, Brian!!!, their parents, every character to be honest, Jude's character development and her protective love for Noah that irradiated through the pages, how much I loved evey single word. It was simply majestic. I loved it infinitely.
"I’m over being a coward. I’m sick of being on pause, of being buried and hidden, of being petrified, in both senses of the word...I don't want to imagine meadows. I want to run through them."
“SELF-PORTRAIT: Boy Remakes World Before World Remakes Boy”
ps. i took so long reading it, because every tme they started talking about art my fingers itched and i had to sketch. also every page with noah is a pleasure.
I wanted to wait until an appropriate hour to write but I just couldn't. My heart is bursting and my soul is soaring.
This book doesn't deserve five stars. It deserves the entire freaking sun. I'll give it the sun.
“He carries pieces of the galaxy around in a bag.”
“Then our eyes meet and we both crack up like we’re made of the same air.”
“the enchantment of him feeding my very cells”
One of the most beautiful, compelling, transformative writings I've ever read.
“His soul might be a sun. I’ve never met anyone who had the sun for a soul.”
I was so enthralled with every word and the vivid, incredible descriptions Noah made that I didn't have time to think about what I wanted to happen, and then exactly what I would have unknowingly hoped for did. Except so much better than I could have imagined. (the happy parts indeed, the sad ones felt like a blow to my chest)
“Probably only kids whose blood glows. Only revolutionaries.”
Noah is magic, he really is. I felt everything with him, every emotion was so real, it filled my every cell.
I could feel all the giddiness, hope, excitement, wonder. And I could feel the writhing in his stomach; the unbearable pressure in his chest; the anger, red hot, welling up; the despair; his fingertips aching with the uselessness. It washed over me like ocean waves, and I barely managed to come up for air.
I saw so much of myself in him, and at the same time I saw everything I wanted to be.
“But what if I don’t need her permission, her approval, her praise to be who I want to be and do what I love? What if I’m in charge of my own damn light switch?”
Everything about this book was magic. The unquenchable passion for art, the split-aparts, the soul connections, the ecstatic impulse, Noah's mind.
“I didn’t know that family members could just find each other, choose each other like they have.”
And there's so much more I'd say, how i highlighted 99% of this book, how much Noah inspired me, how I loved every detail and character's quirks, how it kept on surprising me, how much I related to noah's struggle with his dad and his ever present mind painting, NoahAndJude, Noah and Jude, the incredibly fascinating, and surprisingly loving, Guillermo, Oscar, Brian!!!, their parents, every character to be honest, Jude's character development and her protective love for Noah that irradiated through the pages, how much I loved evey single word. It was simply majestic. I loved it infinitely.
"I’m over being a coward. I’m sick of being on pause, of being buried and hidden, of being petrified, in both senses of the word...I don't want to imagine meadows. I want to run through them."
“SELF-PORTRAIT: Boy Remakes World Before World Remakes Boy”
ps. i took so long reading it, because every tme they started talking about art my fingers itched and i had to sketch. also every page with noah is a pleasure.
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Un livre magnifique sur la famille, le deuil, les relations humaines et surtout l’amour
La plume de l’autrice est parfois douce parfois cru, on ressent vraiment les sentiments des personnages, c’est prenant
Les deux protagonistes sont tellement attachants. Le fait que l’histoire soit couper entre les pdv de Noah quand ils ont 13-14 ans et les pdv de Jude quand ils ont 16 ans c’est merveilleux.
Le rythme du récit est impeccable les révélations sont logiques et arrivent au bon moment.
L’art qui prend une place très importante dans l’histoire donne des images magnifiques et des moments puissants !
Vraiment une très belle découverte qui m’a fait verser un torrent de larmes !!! C’est beau et triste à la fois. C’était incroyable je suis triste de les quitter je veux qu’ils soient heureux pour toujours
La plume de l’autrice est parfois douce parfois cru, on ressent vraiment les sentiments des personnages, c’est prenant
Les deux protagonistes sont tellement attachants. Le fait que l’histoire soit couper entre les pdv de Noah quand ils ont 13-14 ans et les pdv de Jude quand ils ont 16 ans c’est merveilleux.
Le rythme du récit est impeccable les révélations sont logiques et arrivent au bon moment.
L’art qui prend une place très importante dans l’histoire donne des images magnifiques et des moments puissants !
Vraiment une très belle découverte qui m’a fait verser un torrent de larmes !!! C’est beau et triste à la fois. C’était incroyable je suis triste de les quitter je veux qu’ils soient heureux pour toujours
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes