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3.79 AVERAGE
3.79 AVERAGE
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
amazing
This book really got to my emotions. It was deep and loving and all the things you truly want a teen romance novel to be. It made me feel things I forgot about from when I was younger and I found myself unable to put this book down. Truly spectacular.
This book really got to my emotions. It was deep and loving and all the things you truly want a teen romance novel to be. It made me feel things I forgot about from when I was younger and I found myself unable to put this book down. Truly spectacular.
challenging
emotional
hopeful
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:
Complicated
"Because Park was the sun, and that was the only way Eleanor could think to explain it"
I definitely feel like this is the weakest of Rainbow Rowells books, or maybe just the youngest. 16 year old me would've been all over this, but now it just fell pretty flat. Don't get me wrong, it was heartbreaking at the same time, but it was just too much emotion without any of the why. Probably why it's better for 16 year olds
I definitely feel like this is the weakest of Rainbow Rowells books, or maybe just the youngest. 16 year old me would've been all over this, but now it just fell pretty flat. Don't get me wrong, it was heartbreaking at the same time, but it was just too much emotion without any of the why. Probably why it's better for 16 year olds
emotional
hopeful
sad
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
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Een mooie omschrijving van hoe het voelt om voor het eerst verliefd te zijn.
All those reviews raving about this book? They'e all right. This book is amazing.
Rainbow Rowell has managed here to take us inside a pocket of America that we all know exists, but we all left. Either we grew up and moved away, or times simply changed. Set in the 1990's, it is the story of Eleanor - a beautiful person trapped between a self-absorbed father and a mother who married a monster just so she wouldn't be alone. She is thrust into a terrible situation, as many teenagers are, at the mercy of a stepfather who hates her and siblings who need for her to defend them. It is the definition of an impossible situation.
And then there's Park, with his Korean mom, dad who looks like Magnum P.I., and brother - all forming a relatively happy family. They like each other. They have reasonable expectations.
The relationship that forms between Eleanor and Park is sweet and endearing and slow. But not slow in a "when is this going to pick up" sense. It is sensitive to their personalities. It is a sweetness that grows, timid at first and then becoming braver.
This book on audio is narrated by Rebecca Lowman and Sunil Malhotra. The voice that Lowman gives Eleanor is nothing short of amazing. It defines her in a way that is so in tune with Eleanor's description and behaviors that Eleanor absolutely comes alive, right off the page. Malhotra does Park equally well. Listening to this story was an absolute pleasure that was difficult to put down.
The plot was basically a coming-of-age romance. But the ending was surprisingly realistic. I was afraid it would be tragic; instead, it is hopeful.
Do yourself a favour and don't just read this book, buy it and put it on your shelf to read again and again. It is wonderful.
Rainbow Rowell has managed here to take us inside a pocket of America that we all know exists, but we all left. Either we grew up and moved away, or times simply changed. Set in the 1990's, it is the story of Eleanor - a beautiful person trapped between a self-absorbed father and a mother who married a monster just so she wouldn't be alone. She is thrust into a terrible situation, as many teenagers are, at the mercy of a stepfather who hates her and siblings who need for her to defend them. It is the definition of an impossible situation.
And then there's Park, with his Korean mom, dad who looks like Magnum P.I., and brother - all forming a relatively happy family. They like each other. They have reasonable expectations.
The relationship that forms between Eleanor and Park is sweet and endearing and slow. But not slow in a "when is this going to pick up" sense. It is sensitive to their personalities. It is a sweetness that grows, timid at first and then becoming braver.
This book on audio is narrated by Rebecca Lowman and Sunil Malhotra. The voice that Lowman gives Eleanor is nothing short of amazing. It defines her in a way that is so in tune with Eleanor's description and behaviors that Eleanor absolutely comes alive, right off the page. Malhotra does Park equally well. Listening to this story was an absolute pleasure that was difficult to put down.
The plot was basically a coming-of-age romance. But the ending was surprisingly realistic. I was afraid it would be tragic; instead, it is hopeful.
Do yourself a favour and don't just read this book, buy it and put it on your shelf to read again and again. It is wonderful.
adventurous
challenging
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
It’s a terrible book with awful people that do awful things to other people. It about made me sick by the end. Nothing good happens in this book