
Author: Nicola Yoon
Pages: 310
Published: Sep 1st 2015
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
I am so in love with Nicola Yoon's writing it hurts. Not only is she a phenomenal author but she explores themes and ideas that a lot of books don't even consider.
The format of this book is great. It short quick chapters with diagrams and drawings which are just wonderful and charming and add to Maddy's character. It is a brilliant book if you want to get into reading, need a good summer read (I read it in February, though) or just have nothing else to do. If you want to take a break from all other books and read something else this is great because it is a short stand alone book that just makes you appreciate reading so much. I have recently been really attracted to fantasy and it feels like it's all I've been reading for a very long time and I just needed to refresh my brain with something new and this book swept me off my feet.
I know there are loads of positive opinions and views of this book and I agree. I guess I'm going to go with the flow cause I have nothing original to say about this book! All has been said. I'm literally just expressing my love for it in seven different ways.
I read 'The Sun is Also a Star' by Nicola Yoon last year and I mentioned how much I loved her attention to science and art and questioning the universe and everyone's existence. I didn't expect the same from this book but she has once again gone into the subject and brings up things such as fate, own decisions, planets, family, and love.
What I truly, truly love about Yoon's characters are that they are so culturally diverse. I feel like this is something that doesn't pop up as much in young adult, but is slowly improving. Maddy (the protagonist) is half African American and half Japanese. In 'The Sun is Also a Star' the characters are Jamaican and Korean. I absolutely love this. Having moved from Sweden to England and been to an international school for three years with loads of international friends I truly value this attention to detail. Praise to Nicola Yoon for her originality in character nationality.
Plot Summary:
My disease is as rare as it is famous. Basically, I'm allergic to the world. I don't leave my house, have not left my house in seventeen years. The only people I ever see are my mum and my nurse, Carla.
But then one day, a moving truck arrives next door. I look out my window, and I see him. He's tall, lean and wearing all black - black T-shirt, black jeans, black sneakers, and a black knit cap that covers his hair completely. He catches me looking and stares at me. I stare right back. His name is Olly.
Maybe we can't predict the future, but we can predict some things. For example, I am certainly going to fall in love with Olly. It's almost certainly going to be a disaster.
My Favourite Quote:
"The problem is chaos theory. There are too many inputs to the formula and even the small ones matter more than you think. And you can never measure them precicely enough. But! If you could, you could write a formula to predict the weather, the future, people."
- Olly from The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
My Rating:
10/10
I don't think I'm alone with this opinion.
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