Eleanor & Park

Eleanor & Park is a romantic novel by Rainbow Rowell and was one of my favourite books for a long time. It’s rumoured that Universal Pictures is making a movie adaptation. Yes, I’ll do a review on that as soon as it is in the theatres.
The book is about Eleanor, who lived at her neighbours for quite a while, because her parents got divorced and her mother moved in with a new man. She was the only one to stay back in her hometown, while her younger siblings went with her mother. When Eleanor moves in with her family again and to a new town, Eleanor is an outsider from the very first moment on. She isn’t skinny, has curly red hair and her style is extraordinary. In the books she is also not described as pretty. Park on the other hand is a normal teenager at the age of seventeen, like Eleanor. He is half Asian, does Karate and is left alone by the bullies, because they are mostly his friends.
On her first day of school Eleanor has to sit next to Park, because it is the only free seat on the school bus. At first they don’t like each other and are always happy, whenever they can leave the bus, but when Eleanor starts to red along Parks comics, an interesting and romantic story is starting.
Eleanor & Park was so exiting to read with so many feels and emotions. Even John Green (author of “The fault in or stars”) said, that he loved it because it reminded him how it was to be young and in love with someone and a book.
The only thing that was annoying me is the ending – again. I really feel that all authors make the endings dramatic and disappoint their readers. I even got angrier, when I read the authors’ statement on the ending. But in total Eleanor and Park gets eigth lemondrops (two lemons).