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Eleanor and Park (Book Review)


Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
(May Contain Spoilers)

Summary: 
Eleanor was the new student in the school. Usually, no one would care about the new kids or try to talk to them but Eleanor was different, all the eyes were on her once she walked into the school bus. She was different, she had a big fuzzy red hair, weird baggy clothes with different colors and types of fake jewelry covering her neck and wrists. No one dared offering her a seat in the bus and they all kept staring at her. Park the half Korean kid however fed up with her just standing in the middle of the bus and just asked her to come and sit next to him, less that he know that he would fall in love with her. 
 Eleanor came from a poor family, her mother had to move from their small house to even a smaller one to be with her boyfriend., the one who always insults Eleanor and writes sexual comments all over her school books. Park however came from an American father that always teases him for not being manly enough and a Korean mother who owns a beauty saloon in their garage. 
Its a love story between two young kids who came from completely different backgrounds, none of them knew that they would fall in love with each other. It started out with Park lending Eleanor his comic books and giving her mix tapes and ended up with him helping her escape from her mother's abusive boyfriend.

My review: 
Eleanor and Park is by far my favorite romantic novel. It's not your cliché love story between two teenagers, they are completely two different people with so many imperfections but despite those things they accepted each other. I loved that the author wrote about teenagers like she's one, she wrote about what teenagers go through throughout this stage and how do they feel towards themselves and towards the world which I think that's hard to achieve these days.  The most thing that attracts me in a book is how well the characters are described (appearance or personality) I really felt like I'm seeing the characters in front of me while I was reading the book! 
This is one of the books that talks about different situations and struggles all in one beautifully written story; It talked about love, friendship, racism, sexual abuse and more but most importantly it talked about that there is always people out there who care about you and will stand next to you in your hardest of times, you just have to look deeper and never give up. 
Overall, the book is not just amazing I just can't think of any other word to describe it, It makes you go all "awwe" and "ohh" with every line you read. But, the thing that irritated me the most is that cliff hanger in the last page, when Eleanor wrote something of three words to Park but the author never showed us what those words are. She also mentioned in her author's note at the end of the book that she will never reveal these words to anyone, not even for her mother! Most of the readers think that it's "I love you" but I think that its too cliché for such an extraordinary book. 

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