THE SUN IS ALSO A STAR By Nicola Yoon

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The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
Published by Delacorte Press on 11/1/16
Genres: Contemporary, Romance, Young Adult
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Source: Reviewer Purchase
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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 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?

Short and Sweet Review

Natasha is just 12 hours away from being deported back to Jamaica with her family, and she’ll try to do anything she can to try to stop that from happening. Daniel is an aspiring poet but thats not what his parents want and he’s trying to live up to their high expectations. When they happen to meet on a crowded street in New York City Daniel thinks its fate, but Natasha is not a believer of fate or destiny and she doesn’t plan on falling in love. Well there’s a lot that goes on in this book Natasha is trying to find a way to stay in America and Daniel is on his way to a meeting with someone from Yale, and they just happen to meet and then they meet again. There’s a lot of coincidences in this book and it just felt like too much (if that makes sense). Our main point of view is from Daniel and Natasha but we also get some POVs from people they meet along the way which was interesting. My main problem with this book was I just didn’t connect with the characters, Daniel just seemed to like fate to lead the way while Natasha was more science based and realistic. I don’t really think the instalove thing worked out because they didn’t really know each other and the book takes place within one day in a few hours. The romance just didn’t work out. I did like seeing their families though Natasha’s is dealing with leaving and the thing is America is Natasha’s home its where she’s built her life, while Daniel has immigrant parents who are just trying to give him and his brother a better life than they had. In the end I thought the book was just okay it wasn’t my favorite I didn’t think it was that realistic and the characters weren’t ones that I connected with, I didn’t like their dialogue. I thought the plot was interesting and I liked the mini adventure around New York but thats about it.