After reading The Sky Is Everywhere ages ago and loving it and anxiously awaiting Jandy Nelson's next book, I finally read I'll Give You The Sun. 
 Unfortunately, I'm kind of torn between not really liking it and thinking it was okay. I really wanted to like it more, because I did love The Sky Is Everywhere. 
 I did like that Noah and Jude narrated the book. It's different from a lot of other multiple narrators in that Noah and Jude are on a different timelines. Because I don't pay attention to summaries or anything, I thought it meant that Noah had died or something really bad happened to him because of that timeline, and it took a while for me to realize he was still alive. But then I was more confused, because if he's alive, why didn't he really appear in Jude's timeline? 
 It is an interesting way to tell a story, but it didn't completely work for me. On the one hand, I do kind of like that they have two different pieces of the story, but at the same time, I felt like the story wasn't completely there for me because of it. 
 I just don't know how I feel about I'll Give You The Sun. I was expecting something that more like The Sky Is Everywhere, which I connected so much with, and I really wanted that connection in this book. That connection did happen, but not until the last 4 or 5 pages, and at that point, I wondered where that was for the rest of the novel. 
 I didn't care for Noah or Jude, and I found that Noah randomly titling the scene as a painting to be really annoying, while Jude's tendency to quote her grandmother's book was quite. I did feel for Noah, and I understand how and why he became the person he did. He had a lot to deal with, especially since Noah is gay, and we see him struggle with how he presents himself to the world. With Jude, I felt like she stayed relatively the same. They didn't feel genuine in the way the characters in her previous novel did. 
 Let's Rate It: Overall, I'll Give You The Sun just isn't my book. I thought the way the story was told was interesting, and a big part of why I kept reading was because 1- I loved the author's previous book to pieces and gave this one a chance that I probably would not have given it otherwise, and 2- I did want to know what happened and why things fell apart. I think this book turned out okay for me. I'll Give You The Sun gets 2 stars.