Reading I’ll Give You the Sun is like laying down on a Sunday afternoon under your blanket reading while it is pouring outside. This weird and lovely chilly warmth that goes through your body? That is the sensation that I got while reading this book.
This novel is a quote pool. Jandy Nelson’s creativity, craft, and prose are magical like an explosion of colors making it almost impossible to forget about this book. The texture and imagery in the novel are so soft, powerful, natural, mesmerizing, and ethereal. Two little gods that fought each other forcing the division of the world. One can picture so easily the explosion of hues and emotions from the characters’ hearts. The quiet forest, the raging ocean, the imagination, and the perspective of their inner world. Two galactic twins that will give everything for the other.
The characters are round and dynamic as we see them change throughout the novel. Jude goes from one stage to another, to another, and then to one more unknown stage. She changes her attitudes, ideas, and intentions throughout the novel. Noah, however, goes through the struggle of understanding himself and his sexuality facing one of the most horrible situations that a gay teenager can go through. One can see really softly how the prejudice and bullying that LGBTQ people are subjected to, make Noah’s changes more centralized on this aspect. The characters are so well-developed to the point of seeing every single trait of these characters, from where they love and hate, their social consciousness awakening, and how they discover their own bodies and strengthen unspoken connections through sex.
I’ll Give You the Sun is so emotionally charged. By not just focusing on one single character, and one single point, Nelson covers the tapestry of teenage angst. Also, the name of the book “I’ll give you the Sun” has so much meaning inside and outside the book. Imagine giving the sun to someone in a bargain. What can one give up for someone else, what the love does to people, how little everything means when you are in love, how big that love is compared to what surrounds you, and even, how less beautiful everything looks when one is on this infatuated state.
Although the novel felt a bit rush to wrap Noah’s story at the end, I’ll Give You the Sun has become a setting stone for all of those dreamy and perfect gay male characters written by women, those we love and deserve for that one ever after event.
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