I'll Give You the Sun

What's five stars minus one Sun? Four stars, yep!

I'll give you the sun was an amazing, funny, entertaining book that really has no right to be as good as it is! There are so many things here that would make me truly dislike almost any other book but somehow I can ignore them no problem.

The sole problem I have with I'll Give You the Sun, and the reason for that one missing star, is how focused it is on Jude and the ending to the LGBT romance of Noah and Brian. At first it seems as a 50/50 type deal with one half being told from Jude's perspective 3 years ahead of Noah who would be given the other half of the book. Except that's not the case. The book is all about Jude and sidelines Noah a lot, like to a point that Noah felt as a side character rather than a valid POV.

I did like the two POVs being 3 years apart, that was interesting at worst and awesome at best. Why that meant we're not allowed to have typical, industry standard chapters is beyond me. It made me stop reading after “chapter” one and pick it up later to finish within two days as there's maybe 5 “chapters” in total with some over 100 pages long. Not enough to substract a star but it annoyed me as I like to end at a chapterbreak rather than in the middle.