For my choice reading in English, I finished The Sun is Also a Star and am close to halfway through Clockwork Angel. In this reaction, I’m going to mostly be talking about The Sun is Also a Star, because I finished that one.
This book is one of my favorite books that I’ve read in a while. It was a really cute story that wasn’t cliche, like you’d maybe expect from a YA Contemporary Romance novel, but it was different and new. The characters were very diverse, which I feel like is important in the world today. Represented in this book was a Korean-American boy and a Jamaican-American girl.
When I picked up this book, I knew it was a romance, but I didn’t expect it to be so well put-together. Before reading The Sun is Also a Star, I had read another book by Nicola Yoon, which was also very good, but I liked this one better. The writing style was amazing, and the romance in this book was well-written, not cheesy, but also very enjoyable.
Along with the well-written romance, there were other aspects that allowed me to enjoy the book. We got to see the characters trouble with their families. Daniel didn’t get along with his brother at all, and we saw that come into the plot line with the romance when Charlie (his brother) made fun of Natasha and was being very racist. We also saw Natasha blaming her dad for what they had become and the fact that they were close to being deported.
I would recommend this book to anyone who likes to read. A forewarning: it has some language, but if you can ignore that, then the book is great. If you like romance or just a good read, this book is for you.