Jude and Noah are twins and friends but something terrible happened when they were 13 and now at 16 they hardly speak. Their story is told through two different timelines, Noah at 13 and Jude at 16, and we slowly find out what happened to tear the two apart.

First off, all the blurbs for this book always go on about how Jude and Noah are inseparable and the most important people in the world to each other but I didn't really get this at all. Right from the start, there's a huge gap between them and the distance is very easy to see. Unlike some other reviews I've read, I actually preferred Jude over Noah. I found Noah to be extremely immature at all times, petty, mean and really judgmental as well. He constantly seemed to put down his mother, his father, his sister -pretty much everyone unless he was attracted to them. While Jude was a bit silly at times, I felt like she had more character development than Noah and was really able to recognise her mistakes earlier on in the book and try to mend them - Noah only seemed to develop at the very, very end of the book. They both continued to be pretty terrible towards each other until the end.

The writing in this is very flowery and definitely extremely beautiful at times. However at times, the prose was almost too flowery for me and I would have liked it toned down just a little bit, particularly in Noah's chapters. There were times his descriptions were just a little bit too much and too over the top for me.

I did find it very interesting that Noah and Jude's personalities seemed to completely swap after the incident. Noah suddenly became popular and normal, and then Jude became a bit weird and closed off. That was a nice touch.

The relationships could have done with a bit more work despite the whole soul mate thing. I felt like we as readers were suppose to accept that okay, I guess that's it for them but I would have liked Oscar and Jude to be a bit more real with each other - you can't keep passing an orange back and forth and be like okay I'm in love.

I did like it but I don't think Jandy Nelson's writing does it for me the way it seems to for everyone else. I read The Sky Is Everywhere when I was younger and, again, it was good but it didn't blow me away. I will continue reading what she puts out though as she definitely has some talent!