I suppose I didn't really know what I was expecting from this book. I certainly liked it more than I thought I would. 
 The Sun is Also a Star is set over the course of one day and follows two main characters - Nathasha - an illegal immigrant who's due to be deported that evening, and Daniel - who has an interview for a university he's not so enthusiastic about. He likes poetry. 
 I read Nicola Yoon's debut novel 'Everything, Everything' earlier this year because it has the prettiest cover of all time. I liked it but not enough to require all other books by her except that 'The Sun is Also a Star' has the second-prettiest cover of all time. I'm not shallow or anything. 
 I didn't have the highest ever expectations for this but it did exceed the expectations I did have. I liked it better than 'Everything, Everything'. 
 Something I particularly like about Nicola Yoon's writing - especially in this books - is that her characters are real. They have genuine, non-superficial flaws but are still overall likeable. She also puts characters in tough situations but she doesn't let their circumstances define them - Natasha likes music and science and can't sing. Daniel loves poetry and hates roller coasters. It's nice to have characters with complexity. 
 Something else I really liked about this is the structure - we have alternating chapters between Natasha and Daniel but also interludes where we get a glimpse of the lives of other characters - their parents, Daniel's brother, a security guard. I felt these really added something to the story, a sort of beauty. They were some of my favourite parts. 
 The upsetting part about this, I feel, is the book's potential. The basic premise gave the possibility of something really beautiful and, while it was really good, it was a 5* rather than a 4*. That's not to say it was bad, not at all, but it had the potential to be something more than it was. Something wonderful. It's kind of upsetting that it didn't quite have that.