I've found that quite often I set up expectations of books that have gotten a lot of hype. I don't really know what I was expecting from I'll Give You the Sun but simply it was not this. This novel focuses on two siblings, twins in fact, Jude and Noah. At age thirteen they are as thick as thieves, but things start to fall apart and at sixteen they aren't even speaking to each other. Noah tells the early years, sections titled "The Invisible Museum." He talks about being bullied and resenting his sister for hanging out with the surfers and trying to be like them. He feels like she's slipping away from him. Jude narrates the story when they're sixteen, with her sections entitled "The History of Luck." Now, Jude is the abnormal one, and Noah blends seamlessly into the popular crowd at school. 
 There are quite a few major events that happen in the twins' lives, but as the story goes on the reader realizes that they don't have the same information. Jude thinks one thing, Noah knows another, but because they're not speaking to each other they can't reconcile the two stories to find out the truth. And that's hurting them both and driving them apart. As the reader being addressed by both characters, it's kind of heartbreaking to put all the pieces together and be unable to tell Jude and Noah what's really going on. The best you can hope for is that they'll figure it out themselves. 
 As I said earlier, this book was not what I expected, mostly because of how delightfully strange it was. Noah's descriptions in the early years are full of hyperbole, sound and color, and his sister's twisting hair. Jude, in her narration, is a self-proclaimed "Bible-thumper" (you'll find out what this is later on), and communicates with ghosts of her dead relatives. They both have a unique perspective and their narration is made better for the fact that they choose to see the world in such a creative way. It makes reading entertaining and fun. All-in-all, this is a book that I'm very glad that I read.