Hardcover, 348 pages
Published November 1st 2016 by Delacorte Press
Rating: ★★★★
I won The Sun is Also a Star in a Shelf Awareness giveaway. I entered knowing very little about it beyond that it was a young adult romance. I don't often read romance, either adult or young adult. It's not really a genre that greatly appeals to me, particularly heterosexual romances. I feel like I'm inundated with them at all times, in life, in media, in everything. It gets tiring.
Despite that, The Sun is Also a Star still felt like a breath of fresh air that frequently caused me to smile while reading. To start with, neither of the lead characters, Natasha or Daniel, are white. That's certainly rare in a sea of blonde teenage adonises and blue eyed heroines. Natasha is an undocumented Jamaican girl on the cusp of being deported due to a drunken mistake of her father's. She loves science, believes wholeheartedly provable facts, and likes the crackling pain in 90s grunge music. Daniel is the American born son of Korean immigrants, struggling between his parents' educational desires for him and his own dreams of being a poet. They're both adorable, wholly fleshed out characters that I really, truly liked.
Despite that, The Sun is Also a Star still felt like a breath of fresh air that frequently caused me to smile while reading. To start with, neither of the lead characters, Natasha or Daniel, are white. That's certainly rare in a sea of blonde teenage adonises and blue eyed heroines. Natasha is an undocumented Jamaican girl on the cusp of being deported due to a drunken mistake of her father's. She loves science, believes wholeheartedly provable facts, and likes the crackling pain in 90s grunge music. Daniel is the American born son of Korean immigrants, struggling between his parents' educational desires for him and his own dreams of being a poet. They're both adorable, wholly fleshed out characters that I really, truly liked.
