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Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

77 reviews

dianaaguilar's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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lenawijn's review against another edition

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tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

Voor de derde keer gelezen, dit keer voor een paper over racistische ideologieën. Het boek is al langer in opspraak voor het verkeerd benaderen van interraciale relaties, het fetishizen van Aziatisch-Amerikaanse personen en het rechtvaardigen van (geïnternaliseerd) racisme. Het feit dat het boek geen tegenbeweging maakt is voor mij problematisch. Ik vind dat de onderwerpen van huiselijk geweld en pesten daarentegen wel goed besproken worden. 
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lildookz's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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irisvdn's review against another edition

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sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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jailynxpaige's review against another edition

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emotional sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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tannerlauren's review against another edition

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emotional inspiring lighthearted medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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maikireads's review

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emotional funny hopeful sad

5.0

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meeklovestoread's review against another edition

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emotional lighthearted medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

The love story wasn't doing it for me. The way they got together rubbed me a little uncomfortably because he was literally a bystander to her getting harassed by his friends. Then they'd both having rude thoughts about each other. One that stuck out to me was how she kept calling him "stupid Asian kid". Like what does him being Asian have to do with anything. Also the representation in this book towards Asians wasn't it. I specifically remember a scene where he was expressing his concerns and his struggles of being half Asian and half white and being disconnected towards one from the other and kind of being white washed due to his predominantly white environment. And she just kind of dismissed his struggles. That didn't sit right with me at all. Overall I just found their romance pretty immature (but they were teens in love so I kinda dismissed that).
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nalyr98's review against another edition

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hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

It felt implicitly racist and fat phobic… the storyline was a good idea if it had it be executed better  
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onionthefirst's review against another edition

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challenging emotional funny hopeful sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Ok I have to collect myself. 
Ok 
Ok 
Ok done 
This book was such a rollercoaster 
I really thought I am with them 
Sitting In their room 
Seeing how they fall for each other 
How they want to save each other 
How they only wanted each other 

And how they couldn’t 

This ending broke my heart a little bit 
I mean she had to get away..HAD TO.
Richie creeped me out the whole time. It was like I was lying right next to Marsie and Eleanor, hoping he wouldn’t come in, hoping he would finally stop.

But this ending that came along with the runaway of Eleanor. That ending between them. I hope they will reach out to each other. Some day. Maybe he will go to college in Minnesota and they will meet again. “Don’t know how don’t know when, but I know well met again”

I don’t know. Reading how he missed her. Reading how he wrote her letters. How she didn’t respond. Reading how he did go to prom. With somebody else. Even kissing that somebody.
My heart 
My heart.

But that post card
That little post card
Three words 
It has to be the three worlds I’m thinking of 
Because that would mean they could do it 
They can do it 
I believe it 

Those three words 
“I love you”


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