The Sky Is Everywhere

Adrift after her sister Bailey's sudden death, Lennie finds herself torn between quiet, seductive Toby - Bailey's boyfriend who shares her grief - and Joe, the new boy in town who bursts with life and musical genius. Each offers Lennie something she desperately needs....though she knows if the two of them collide her whole world will explode.

Join Lennie on this heartbreaking and hilarious journey of profound sorrow and mad love, as she makes colossal mistakes and colossal discoveries, as she traipses through band rooms and forest bedrooms and ultimately right into your heart.

As much a celebration of love as a poignant portrait of loss, Lennie's struggle to sort her own melody out of the noise around her is always honest, often uproarious, and absolutely unforgettable. - excerpt from book.

The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson is the author's debut book. I've actually read the second book first and it impressed me much to pick up her first book. I was really impressed by this book too, it was such a heart-warming story on family love, The grief written in the book felt so real, it really touched my heart and it made me tear a bit. The characters' reactions and personality really catches my attention and I absolutely loved their interactions with each other. The character development was very good, I liked the heroine a lot. 

The way this book was written is so lovely as there were parts with the past which at the same time letting the readers get to know the character who is already dead in the heroine's perspective. The relationships that the heroine have is quite exciting and complicated which got me flipping the pages non-stop. I also really like that the author inserted small notes and poems in the chapters as it extends the plot. Generally the plot has a nice pace, exciting twists and the ending was just wonderful for me.

This book easily crept into my favourites for this year as the message of the book was really good. I hope that everyone who read this book would learn the same meaningful message that I did. I highly recommend this book to readers who loved I'll give you the sun. I also recommend this to contemporary lovers as this was such a touching story, you will not be disappointed. Below is a part of the book I absolutely love but it might a bit of a spoiler so do not read it if you do not wished to be spoiled:

Beside  me, step for step, breath for breath, is the unbearable fact that I have a future and Bailey doesn't. 

This is when I know it.

My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy. - page 256 line 25 to page 257 line 7.

I'll Give You The Sun

Jude and her twin brother, Noah, are incredibly close. At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constanly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude cliff-dives and wears red-red lipstick and does the talking for both of them.

But three years later, at sixteen, Jude and Noah are barely speaking. Something has happened to wreck the twins in different and dramatic ways...until Jude meets a cocky, broken, beautiful boy, as well as someone else-an even more unpredictable new focus in her life.

The early years are Noah's story to tell. The later years are Jude's. What the twins don't realize is that they each have only half the story, and if they could just find their way back to each other, they'd have a chance to remake their world. - excerpt from book.

I'll give you the sun by Jandy Nelson is a book about two siblings that had an incident occured in their lives that changed everything and who they are. At first I thought the book was at an okay pace and when the plot thickens it was hard to put down. I enjoyed every bit of the book and I loved the meaning conveyed by the book. I like the dual perspective written where the boy's in the past and sister in the present. I find myself enjoying the sister's part of the chapters more.

I really like the characters of the book, especially the sister because she had the most character growth compared to the brother. The other characters involved in the plot are also good to the story and I like how these people can be so real. I feel like if I talked too much about the book, I would reveal the contents but honestly it was easy to guess what was coming or what information was hidden from the characters. It was a predictable book for me but I still loved it because it was how the plot all come together at the end that was beautiful. How the thoughts of the main characters were written in the chapters were also really good and the description was creative.

Overall it was a good book about two siblings and I loved that I can somehow relate a little bit to it. The message of the book was beautiful and I hope the people who read this gets the same feelings too. It's not the type of book that I would read again quickly, probably when I can't remember well then I would pick it up. But now the story and feelings are fresh in my mind, it would be boring to read a book that I know so much about now. A good page turner that I will recommend to contemporary lovers and people who love to read stories involving sibling love. Below is something said by the sister which I absolutely agree with and I thought it was good enough to share and remember it.  

"Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people," I say. "Maybe we're accumulating these new selves all the time." Hauling them in as we make choices, good and bad, as we screw up, step up, lose our minds, find our minds, fall apart, fall in love, as we grieve, grow, retreat from the world, dive into the world, as we make things, as we break things.-  pg 354, line 17 onwards.