Eleanor & Park: A Novel

I liked this book, but also I didn’t. Honestly, I just really didn’t understand their love for each other and maybe if I did I would have liked this book more.

I like this book because the story goes along is love is something you fight for. Both characters go through the struggles of love with fighting their enemies, family, and friends. The same theme also is in Romeo and Juliet. They are both are in rival families but die to be together.

Eleanor meets Park on the morning school bus, trying to drown out the noise with music from his Walkman. He ignores his neighbors Steve and Tina, fellow high school classmates who are chatting loudly and obnoxiously in the back of the bus. Then, Eleanor's sitting on the steps outside school, going through a mental checklist trying to figure out how she can avoid riding the bus again. We find out she's just moved, her mom doesn't have a car, and for some reason, she can't imagine calling her dad. Turns out Park knows a lot about martial arts, by the way, "because his dad was obsessed with martial arts, not because his mom was Korean". Now, Park can't deal with leaving Eleanor to fend for herself at the back of the bus, and he "hated himself for thinking like this"

WHAT WERE THE THREE WORDS?!? I LOVE YOU? IM COMING BACK? JSJSKSKS !!! THIS WAS A HELLA GOOD BOOK

The Book was great. I really enjoyed it. Romance between the main character. Eleanor and Park was really beautiful. Sometimes it feel cringe, but I mean is a teen love story so at least we can expect that much. The romance overall was very good. Very interesting and you feel for the character as well, both Eleanor and Park. The overall theme of the book, I would say focus around bullying, but this is what the negative comes in, the book doesn’t tell you how how to deal with bullying. That’s the issue. I mean, you can understand more when you read it, but feels like every character in this book didn’t want to do anything about this bullying situation. Anyways, apart from Eleanor and Park you don’t feel attached to other characters as much as you do with the main character. The author didn’t focus on the other characters that much. The Book mainly focus on and Park and Eleanor and their relationship, and how they develop feelings for each others. Also, sometimes it feels like the story is dragging a little bit, I mean the Book can easily be cut shot 20 or 30 page. Overall the book was good. It was a good romance book. If you like romance, you can definitely try. There is some negative of this Book, but you can overcome that negative when you finished the book and the ending was, I would say good, not perfect, not bad, good, I like the ending.

There were good parts of this book but I felt as though every chapter was the same monotonous plot of awkward teenage romance and characters who do not develop throughout the story.