Günes de Bir Yildizdir

This was closer to a 2.5 for me. At about 80% through, I tweeted, "I don't understand what people liked so much about this book" and having finished it, I still don't. The end did bring a lot of threads together in a way that was satisfying - though strained the bounds of belief for me. But the whole premise of the book was about straining the bounds of belief in some ways, so the ending wasn't that much of a detractor. For me, I just wasn't as captivated by Natasha and Daniel as I think I was supposed to be. I really hated the mini interludes narrated by other characters and I thought it was a clunky way to escape the confines of your story to provide the reader with information they'll need. I also didn't like the simple way the Jamaican accents were portrayed and I expected someone born in Jamaica to do a more nuanced job of it.

I read this mainly because it checks off one of the prompts in a reading challenge I'm doing for a book that takes place in only one day. The fact that it was being made into a movie was a bonus, in case I liked it. I didn't but now I'm interested in seeing how the movie is going to handle the dueling viewpoints.