{"id":309,"date":"2015-02-09T01:26:30","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T05:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/mediacenter\/mshicksonblog\/?p=309"},"modified":"2015-02-09T10:08:36","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T14:08:36","slug":"review-ill-give-you-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/mediacenter\/mshicksonblog\/2015\/02\/09\/review-ill-give-you-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: I&#8217;ll Give You the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 198px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1392575990l\/20820994.jpg\" width=\"188\" height=\"285\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">I&#8217;ll Give You the Sun<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Summary: <\/strong>Lyrically written story about artistically gifted twins whose bond is broken by tragedy, forcing them to remake their worlds even though each holds only half the pieces.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My thoughts:<\/strong>\u00a0Overlong and often overwrought, it&#8217;s still a smart, thoughtful examination of family life, identity, and romance, woven with magical realism and filled with fully realized characters who fulfill the e.e. cummings quote that opens the book: &#8220;It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.&#8221; Sure to be a strong contender for the Printz Award.<\/p>\n<p>Recommend\u00a0<em>I&#8217;ll Give You the Sun<\/em>\u00a0to fans of E. Lockhart&#8217;s\u00a0<em>We Were Liars<\/em>, which shares a similar melancholy, mystery, and doomed romance in a privileged setting. Readers who appreciated the art-infused sibling strife of Carol Rifka Brunt&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Tell the Wolves I&#8217;m Home\u00a0<\/em>will also be drawn to Nelson&#8217;s <em>Sun.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Lyrically written story about artistically gifted twins whose bond is broken by tragedy, forcing them to remake their worlds even though each holds only half the pieces. My thoughts:\u00a0Overlong and often overwrought, it&#8217;s still a smart, thoughtful examination of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/mediacenter\/mshicksonblog\/2015\/02\/09\/review-ill-give-you-the-sun\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 20:04:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/mediacenter\/mshicksonblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/mediacenter\/mshicksonblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/mediacenter\/mshicksonblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/mediacenter\/mshicksonblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/mediacenter\/mshicksonblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/mediacenter\/mshicksonblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/mediacenter\/mshicksonblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/mediacenter\/mshicksonblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/mediacenter\/mshicksonblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/mediacenter\/mshicksonblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}