Eleanor & Parks ~ Rainbow Rowell ☆ Review
Heey!
I’m not sure if you remember, but this book has actually been waiting for me on my shelves for maybe more than a year now.. i’ve been a bit reluctant to read it after some negative reviews i’ve seen *aherm*
What got me into reading this particular one this month is a Goodreads’ group called «Forgotten YA Gems», where it got picked via a members’ voting, for one of the two March Read-Along. Figured i’d join in on the fun as it was clearly waiting for me anyway so.. why not?🙈
5 / 5 stars
At first, the fat-shaming toward Eleanor really bothered me.. aswell as both of our characters feeling kinda greh. I was really not sure about this one.
But I kept reading anyway, and as their relationship between Eleanor and Parks grew.. so did my love for them! They reminded me exactly of Finch & Violet from «All our Bright Places».. The relationship between the teens felt so real, an although he was way more “luckier” than her, he would have gave her everything if he had could.
Though having a rather “dark” core in the story; as we are talking spouse abuse & bullying of her kids, the love story itself was everything – I would’ve wanted them to have all the good in the world, hoping so much it wouldn’t go to the separation we feared.
Though I cannot judge if said representation is good or not, this novel has quite some diversity; Park’s family is asian, his mom being Korean; being described as sun-kissed skin or “yellow” by parks himself. We also get to see his struggles into being the only asian at school/his neighborhood. Though it means tonight to her specifically, Eleanor has irish & danish roots; white skinned with really strong ginger hair.
22 thoughts on “Eleanor & Parks ~ Rainbow Rowell ☆ Review”
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This book.💖💖💖💖
Yes !! ❤️❤️
I wasn’t the biggest fan of this book, but I definitely agree that it feels so real! My favourite part was how realistic Eleanor and Park’s relationship was
Indeed! Definately something that could happen — Sorry this book wasn’t of your taste, happens xx
Sounds like a great read! I’ll have to add it to my summer TBR pile! Great review!
Yay! Thank you 💕
Nice review! I liked the romance aspect of it but the ending left me quite annoyed. 🙈
Iknow!!
Whats the three words?? I wanna know!!
Exactly!! 😜
This sounds like a good summer read while I wait desperately for her next book!
Correct! Hopefully you’d like it as much as I did xx
Wonderful review Kristina!! This one is on my shelf for ages!!
Thank you!
Yeah it was the same for me ahah hopefully you’ll get to it soon!
I adored Eleanor and park when I first read it! Also I really hope the last three words were I love you and not I am sorry or something like that! Not knowing what those words were so frustrating! And really, I didn’t expect the book to take such a dark turn.
I sincerely hope it would NOT go that way … I so hope it was I love you too ! (though in french “Je t’aime” aint really 3 words.. so in that case the translation kinda fucked up xD)
Yeah that’s one problem with translations.. the original word and the translated word may differ
I have been wanting to read this book for the longest! Thanks for the review.
Hopefully youll love it aswell xx
I have read two other books from Rainbow Rowell. One I liked and the other didn’t suit me at all. Now you are tempting to give her another chance.
Ohh which ones did you read?
I like Attachments and didn’t love Fangirl!
I see. I dont think id personally enjoy fangirl and im not in the harry potter fandom xD i dont remember what’s the premise of attachments