book review: eleanor & park
Thursday, 20 April 2017 - 0 comment
Author Rainbow Rowell
Country United States
Language English
Genre Romance
Publisher St. Martin's Press
Published February 2013
Pages 329
synopsis:
Two misfits.One extraordinary love.ive owned this book for a while now, eleanor & park, and i could say its one of my favorite books of all time. every reread is gold, it doesn't even feel much like a reread, actually! like i'm reading a new book all over, picking up new details and new feelings all the same.
Eleanor... Red hair, wrong clothes. Standing behind him until he turns his head. Lying beside him until he wakes up. Making everyone else seem drabber and flatter and never good enough...Eleanor.
Park... He knows she'll love a song before he plays it for her. He laughs at her jokes before she ever gets to the punch line. There's a place on his chest, just below his throat, that makes her want to keep promises...Park.
Set over the course of one school year, this is the story of two star-crossed sixteen-year-olds—smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try.
it's a quirky, beautifully crafted book. its funny and tear-jerking, and truly a masterpiece. probably the only book i cried over.
park is your boyfriend goals tbh. emo asian boy who's sensitive but still boyish, sweet as ever, rarely liking anyone, with 10/10 music taste. making mixtapes, lending comic books. park is perfect.
eleanor.... isn't that shiny. chubby, red hair, pretty but almost intangibly(?) so. strange clothes, quirky, sarcastic & funny. except she comes from a broken family. her bunch of red-headed siblings, her weak-willed mother, and her mom's abusive husband.
through emotional twists and turns you'll dive in the story and won't want to get out! it's beautifully melancholic. especially with an opening like this:
He’d stopped trying to bring her back.i'll leave it at that. have fun reading!
She only came back when she felt like it, in dreams and lies and broken-down déjà vu.
Like, he’d be driving to work, and he’d see a girl with red hair standing on the corner – and he’d swear, for half a choking moment, that it was her.
Then he’d see that the girl’s hair was more blond than red.
And that she was holding a cigarette … And wearing a Sex Pistols T-shirt.
Eleanor hated the Sex Pistols.
Eleanor …
Standing behind him until he turned his head.
Lying next to him just before he woke up. Making everyone else seem drabber and flatter and never good enough.
Eleanor ruining everything.
Eleanor, gone.
He’d stopped trying to bring her back.
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