OWWW I WANT MORE! LIKE NOW! Favorite contemporary of all time. I'll Give You The Sun was so cute, and sweet and URGGG! I loved it! I LOVED IT! After seeing the cover I just had to read it. Look at it and just tell me it's not beautiful because your lying. It was sad and happy (though usually more sad than happy). IT PLAYED SO AWFULLY WITH MY EMOTIONS AND NOW I WANT TO CRY AND SMASH THINGS MAGICALLY GAIN A TWIN! 
 (Ok calm down Daniela) 
 Phew... 
 I'll Give You The Sun is about twins, Jude and Noah, it switches POV between throughout the book, in Noah's POV he's 13 and Jude, in hers in 16. They are both going through tough times. Noah is unpopular, gets bullied, is awkward, weird and only finds company in his drawings while Jude is the complete opposite loads of friends and dating a popular douche. With Jude she's dealing with her mothers death which has completely changed things for and turned her upside down while Noah in his chapters is dealing the fact that he's different from everybody else and his unclear sexuality. 
 "I can see people's souls sometimes when I draw them, I know the following: Mom has a massive sunflower for a soul so big there's hardly any room in her for organs. Jude and me have one soul between us that we have to share: a tree with its leaves on fire. And Dad has a plate of maggots for his" 
 That's how Noah feels about his family his Mom supports him with his art and his dad wishes Noah could act normal while Jude and him have one of those sibling bonds everyone wishes they could have. 
 "Yeah. He's weirder than you even." She pauses. I wait, hoping she'll turn back into my sister, the way she used to be, not this new hornet version. "Well, probably not weirder than you." I turn around. The antennae are waving back and forth on her forehead. She's here to sting me to death. "No one's weirder than you." 
 Well... Jude and Noah don't always have that bond and during Noah's chapters she usually a total bitch. 
 One thing I love about this book were all the artist metaphor's, I'm not sure that how everybody felt but I absolutely loved them and felt it made the story come more to life. In Jude's chapters it would have bible quotes which I also loved. I liked how Jude was religious and had crazy beliefs and the connection to her grandmother. She's a little screwed up... I like it. 
 "A person in possession of a four-leaf clover is able 
 to thwart all sinister influences 
 To avoid serious illness, keep an onion in your pocket 
 If a boy gives a girl an orange, her love for him will multiply 
 The feet of ghosts never touch the ground 
 So ya Jude walks around with an onion in her pocket. She also see ghosts of her grandmother and mom ever since they both died. 
 "After a loved one dies, you must cover every mirror in the house 
 so the spirit of the departed can rise--otherwise they will be stuck 
 forever among the living 
 (I've never told anyone this, but when Mom died, not only didn't 
 I cover the mirrors, I went to the drugstore and bought dozens 
 of pocket ones. I left them all over the house, wanting her spirit 
 to get stuck with us, wanting it so bad.)" 
 The message in this book though was so sweet. Ya it's a deep serious book with a lot of screwed thing happening but I did smile at places cuz when Jude wasn't bitchy I loved her and Noah together. 
 "Can I have it?" 
 This shocks me. She's never asked for a drawing before. I'm horrible at giving them away. "For the sun, stars, oceans, and all the trees, I'll consider it," I say, knowing she'll never agree. She knows how badly I want the sun and trees. We've been dividing up the world since we were five. I'm kicking butt at the moment--universe domination is within my grasp for the first time. 
 "Are you kidding?" she says, standing up straight. It annoys me how tall she's getting. It's like she's being stretched at night. "That leaves me just the flowers, Noah." 
 Fine, I think. She'll never do it. It's settled, but it isn't. She reaches over and props up the pad, gazing at the portrait like she's expecting the English guy to speak to her. 
 "Okay," she says. "Trees, stars, oceans. Fine." 
 "And the sun, Jude." 
 "Oh, all right," she says, totally surprising me. "I'll give you the sun." 
 SO IF YOU HAVENT CLUED IN ALREADY IM TELLING YOU TO GO READ THIS BOOK. YOU WILL LOVE IT.