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Eleanor & Park: A Novel
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Eleanor & Park: A Novel

Written by Rainbow Rowell

Narrated by Rebecca Lowman and Sunil Malhotra

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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Bono met his wife in high school, Park says.
So did Jerry Lee Lewis, Eleanor answers.
I'm not kidding, he says.
You should be, she says, we're 16.
What about Romeo and Juliet?
Shallow, confused, then dead.

I love you, Park says.
Wherefore art thou, Eleanor answers.
I'm not kidding, he says.
You should be.

Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits-smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try. When Eleanor meets Park, you'll remember your own first love-and just how hard it pulled you under.

Editor's Note

Sweet & awkward...

The relatability of two teens falling for each other over a mutual love of comics & The Smiths is a testament to Rowell’s ability to tap into the teenage experience, where first loves are sweet, awkward & all-consuming.

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Release dateFeb 26, 2013
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Eleanor & Park: A Novel
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Rainbow Rowell

Rainbow Rowell is the award-winning #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eleanor & Park and the Simon Snow Trilogy, plus several other novels, short stories, and comics. She lives in Omaha, Nebraska, just like most of her characters.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Oh man. So raw, and good. And I really want to kick the shit out of Eleanor's mom and step-dad. Want a sequel!!
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A sweet and sad love story.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This book captures being a teen in high school. Two very different teens meet and build their relationship on their shared loved for music and comics. I wasn't expecting to care about the characters. I found the story to be adorable and heartbreaking. And I loved the pop culture references of the 80s music.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Loved this. I love how Rowell can create such a cozy, inviting world in her books. I want to hang out with her characters and still find myself wondering what they’re up to.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Very good book. Accurately shows high school struggles.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I usually find YA romance horrible, but having this set in 1986 in Omaha with Sprite Night (Who didn't love Hot Scott!) and the Huskers made it work for me. I felt like I grew up with Eleanor - or maybe Rainbow. I did find the use of the f-word twice on the first page a bit much (that had to be intentional, but why?). Eleanor is odd and completely lovable. The story has a quick pace that I think high school students will love.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I would be curious to meet the people who feel this book should be banned from schools. This book is not what they say it is. It is beautifully written and heartbreaking. Eleanor lives with her Mom and Stepdad, who is a drunk and violent. She has 3 younger brothers and a younger sister. They don't live in a nice part of Omaha. Eleanor meets Park and they fall in love. Park is from a healthy family who love each other. Park's parents know a little of what Eleanor's home life is like and so they allow her to spend as much time at their house as possible. Eleanor gets bullied at school, but it's subtle. I figure this book is set in the late 70s and early 80s, just when I was that age and school was a lot like what Rainbow wrote about. If people don't want their kids to read this book it's because they don't want their kids to see that some families are like Eleanor's. Some kids are in families where they have to watch what they say, watch what they have in their possession and even watch what time they take a bath. This is a book that must be read. It's a book that will stay with you for a long time. I like the way it bounces back between Eleanor and Park. How they misread body language and words. How they really are a lot a like. Some kids at 16 really do fall hard for each other.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Eleanor joins the school year late because she has spent the past year at a friend of her mother's house because her stepdad hates her and kicked her out. She has younger siblings: a sister and three brothers. They all live in a small house that belongs to Ritchie, her stepdad. There isn't even a door on the bathroom and all the kids share a bedroom with one set of bunk beds. Park on the other hand lives in suburbialand with his own room with a waterbed and his own phone (Eleanor's family doesn't have a phone because Ritchie can't afford to pay the bill. He drinks it away.) and has a younger brother and his parents are still together and love each other very much. Park's life isn't perfect, though, he has a dad who is tough on him and makes him too nervous to get things right when he is teaching him whether it is a new taekwondo move or to drive stick which he insists on him learning before he can get his driving license.Eleanor arrives on the bus in all her weird glory in 1986 and finds no seat to sit on the bus. Park lets her sit with him, reluctantly. He's not all that interested in getting picked on for allowing this and he walks on thin ground with the popular kids in the back of the bus as it is for being into punk music, comic books, and is half Korean. But soon a friendship forms over comic books as she reads along with him on the way to school. And he makes her a mixtape of the Smiths and Joy Division for her to listen to because she's never heard them before since they aren't played on the local radio station. He even keeps her in batteries as he makes her more mixed tapes and loans her his comic book collection.But she knows that the love they are starting to feel for one another can't last because if Ritchie or her mom find out that she really isn't going to her friend Tina's after school but to Park's house they would kick her out of the house again. But that doesn't stop her from going. Neither does the fact that Park's mom doesn't like her because she dresses and looks weird and she knows who her parents are. On top of that Eleanor must deal with being bullied by Tina and her crowd during gym. But she gets some unexpected support from two girls who decide to be her friend.This book brought back memories of my own time riding on the bus to school during this same time period of the eighties. I had a big french horn to keep me company on my seat and to encourage others to sit elsewhere. I didn't have my own romance like Eleanor and Park, but I was always the odd man out at school like Eleanor was. The only difference was I wasn't bullied much because I was in the band which provided me some protection. This book is so relatable and believable and you root for them to last against the odds. This book is more than about first love. It's about fitting in where you don't and finding that one person that makes you complete. This is a great book and I give it five out of five stars.QuotesThat’s a voice that arrives on a chariot drawn by dragons.-Rainbow Rowell (Eleanor and Park p 15)Brains love poetry. It’s sticky stuff.-Rainbow Rowell (Eleanor and Park p22)Eleanor was right: She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.-Rainbow Rowell (Eleanor and Park p 165)“Never trust a man, Eleanor!” “Especially if he hates to dance.”-Rainbow Rowell (Eleanor and Park p 205)The Impala might not look pervy on the outside, not like a fully carpteted custom van or something—but the inside was a different story. The front seat was almost as big as Eleanor’s bed, and the backseat was an Erica Jong novel just waiting to happen.-Rainbow Rowell (Eleanor and Park p 273)
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell was a book that I had placed on hold at the library months ago. And after waiting all of those months, I gobbled this book up in no time.Eleanor & Park is about two misfit 16-year-olds who have their first high school romance, but it’s not a romantic book. It’s a book about life, trying to find yourself as a teen, and first love.Plus this book takes place in 1986 which means it has some awesome 80s references?For the full review, visit Love at First Book
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    1. Love–Fiction. 2. Dating (Social Customs)–Fiction. 3. High Schools–Fiction. 4. Schools–Fiction. These library catalog subject headings usually signal a YA love story, often one that teachers and high school librarians will love, and so it is with Eleanor & Park, the second novel by Rainbow Rowell.Eleanor & Park is a love story set in high school in 1986, a little before the time the author herself graduated from high school, I’d guess. If you were in high school in the 80s, the many music references in the book may resonate more with you than they did with me.Hugely popular YA author John Green gave Eleanor & Park a glowing review in The New York Times, making Eleanor & Park the new YA/adult crossover phenomenon – the book to read after you’ve read The Fault in Our Stars. Eleanor & Park is a heartbreaking love story that succeeds in making believable the idea that, even in the throes of the most horrendous high school experience, there is the possibility of finding the love of one’s life.Read longer review at Bay State Reader's Advisory blog.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    High School can be wonderful or tragic depending upon what happens to you. When you are the new kid, have unruly red hair, are a little on the chunky side, dress with mismatched, patched and masculine clothes and live with a stepdad who is an alcoholic, hates you, abuses your mother and is disliked by pretty much everyone in town, you can figure out which one it is. Despite the teasing and bullying, Eleanor and Park find each other and a wonderful love story develops. The ending of this story is not what I expected but it is true to life. A story that made me cry inside.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    It took me ages to convince myself to read this book, I hate the front cover, but "Eleanor and Park" turned out to be a cute, modern take on "Romeo and Juliet". The two sixteen year-olds are so sweet together as they slowly discover first love, but from the start you know that it's not going to last. An easy read for the romantics at heart, but the ending was too abrupt.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    “Eleanor & Park”, by Rainbow Rowell was the book I needed at the moment. This book was written, perhaps, with a teen audience in mind- but it is the teen that I was that this book was meant for. Once I was a bit of a snob who never read child or YA lit, but being a school librarian cured me of that flaw. Good writing is good writing. This book, set in the late 80s, tells the unglorified story of a first love. It’s messy, it’s self-conscious, it’s compulsive, too worried about what peers may think or see. It’s easy as an adult to be dismissive of a first live, of a teenaged love story. But it’s absolutely necessary to go through a first love to have another one. Some content a parents may wish to screen for younger readers. Really good stuff!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This book made me feel emotions. The good kind, and the bad kind. I am simultaneously upset, and happy, and ohmygodilovethisbook.The ending is what sold me. Those last few bits were an excellent close to this book.A great read to begin 2019!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    If you enjoyed The Fault in our Stars by John Green, you will want to read this book.
    Set in a high school in Nebraska, Eleanor and Park, come from completely different home settings and situations.

    The weird new girl gets on the bus and no one will allow her a seat until Park tells her to just ****** sit down. This is sixteen year old Eleanor. The cute Asian guy is sixteen year old Park.

    When Eleanor starts reading his comic books over his shoulder so to speak, on the bus ride to school, Park notices and begins to share his world with her. Eleanor's clothes are oddball and she is continuously and mercilessly bullied by kids on the bus and at school. nicknames: Big Red (she is overweight and even her stepdad calls her names for this fact) Ronald McDonald, Wendy due to her mass of curly red hair.

    Eleanor has a lot of challenges. She's growing up in a house, filled with her five younger brothers and sisters, nonsupporting mother who is terrified of her angry second husband, Richie. She shares a bedroom with 3 siblings. Eleanor takes a bath in the afternoon behind a sheet before her stepfather comes home. Richie is an alcoholic and he's angry and ready to take it out physically on anyone close by especially Eleanor's mother.

    Park lives in a totally different world world of knickknacks and Avon products. His father is head over heels in love with his Asian bride who is a beautician. Park and his father are not without their struggles. His father wants him to be more like brother Scott, who is big and tough although he is younger than Park.

    This is a story of a girl who is about to find out she is loved unconditionally for being exactly who she is. This is the story about the magic of the human heart.

    This is the story of two characters that will stay with you long after you close the book. I felt as I were hanging by a thread the whole way though the more than 300 pages of the book concerning the relationship between Eleanor and Park. It didn't end as I thought or hoped.

    This is one to not miss.




  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The first line sets the tone for the novel, "XTC was no good for drowning out the morons on the back of the bus." Eleanor and Park takes us back to Omaha, August 1986, on a nostalgic trip for those of us who remember the 1980's, myself included! The novel is written in both Eleanor and Park's, point of view, this works well, and gives the novel a deep insight into both male and female teenagers.

    There is only one seat available on the school bus and of course this is next to Park, a Korean kid, with a comic obsession, who listens to music to shut out the banter of the popular kids on the bus. To begin with Park doesn't know what to make of Eleanor, this new kid who ends up sitting next to him on the last available seat. But in time he warms to her, encouraging her to read his comics, and listen to music. Rainbow Rowell uses the confined space of the seats on the bus to good effect, the two teenagers are so close they are almost touching, the reader can't wait for them to get closer!

    Eleanor and Park is at its most successful at depicting first love. The little almost imperceptible actions that mean so much, such as Park turning the page for Eleanor as he reads his comic. The words unspoken, the gestures, looking at each others shoes, and admiring them. Even sensory details such as Park reflecting that when Eleanor returned his comics to him they smelt like roses. Above all else, it's the tenderness of first love, the hand holding, “Holding Eleanor’s hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat.” Of course this progresses to their first kiss, and gentle caresses, all these romantic progressions, amount to a heart warming description of first love.

    Eleanor is bullied because of her size, and dress sense, and because she's different. Park is culturally different from the other kids, he's Korean, and this makes him vulnerable too. I related a lot to this as I have experienced problems like this myself when I was growing up, (my mother is Malaysian). Park just about gets by without too much attention by trying to be unobserved, whereas Eleanor draws attention to herself with her weird dress sense. It is as if she is unable to help herself. She is big, white skinned, with shocking red hair, but rather than draw attention away from her hair, or her dress sense she does the opposite, like she is challenging them. No wonder they call her big red. There are even instances when Park wonders what he sees in big red, at one point he compares her mouth to the Jokers, not exactly very attractive sounding, yet in time he finds her so appealing that he can't bear to be without her. I really admire this aspect of the story, these two less than popular teenagers, fit together, and nothing else matters. Park accepts that Eleanor is different but rather than putting him off, he finds this attracts him to her. Eleanor perpetuates this by telling him off for calling her “nice,” Park thinks: “Eleanor was right: She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.” This is one of my favourite quotes from the book. It sums up Eleanor so well in just a few words. Eleanor is happy in her own skin, and this is an appealing quality that readers will admire.

    Park's home life is stable and happy compared to Eleanor's. Eleanor feels it's necessary to hide aspects of her sad, home life from Park. He has no idea that she's so poor. She doesn't even have a toothbrush, or a phone. But more than that she has to contend with her unpleasant step dad Richie, and his nasty behaviour on a daily basis. Her mother comes across as this weak individual unable to stand up to Richie, and the children and herself suffer in this abusive relationship. Eleanor pretends not to notice bruises on her mum's wrists. It is easier to turn a blind eye than to admit what's really going on.

    Though Rainbow Rowell did a great job in creating this sad backdrop of an abusive home life, I do think that the developing love story between Eleanor and Park is more powerful, emotive and effective, than the other aspects of the novel, which could have been developed more. Though this would have altered the tone of the novel making it a more serious read, and Rainbow Rowell works best on a light-hearted level.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5

    I read this book in one sitting. I genuinely enjoyed it. I've always been hesitant to read a straight-up romance. I can tolerate the inevitable, obligatory love stories that occur alongside whatever is going on in a supernatural or sci-fi adventure, but just barely; they annoy me more often than not. Good reviews and recommendations are what ultimately interested me in this and I am glad I gave it a chance.

    The titular characters are well-written, soulful people who I could easily picture in my mind. The way they think and the way they talk feel honest. It was incredibly easy for me to empathize with them. The way their relationship progresses feels authentic, if somewhat heightened.

    Where this books falls short for me is with the secondary characters. I get the sense of who everyone is supposed to be, but I never feel particularly invested in any of them. I could see how the de-emphasis of these characters might be intentional, but it took something away from the story.

    In the last couple of weeks, I've started seeing criticism of portrayals of Koreans in this book. I chose to skim those posts, to avoid being spoiled, but I can see where there might be issues. Along with the fact that the secondary characters are never quite potent enough for me, their characterizations are mostly stereotypical. There is validity in the criticism, although it didn't drastically impact my enjoyment of the story.

    Eleanor & Park is not a perfect book, but it is a really good one. I had some issues, which I addressed, but ultimately I felt very satisfied with it. I would recommend it to my friends.

  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    "You think that holding someone hard will bring them closer. You think that you can hold them so hard that you’ll still feel them, embossed on you, when you pull away."Considered a YA novel, Rainbow Rowell nicely describes first love between two quirky, small town teenagers who find each other as seat mates on a school bus in 1986. Told in alternating chapters, Eleanor and Park begin with a comic book fascination and then blossom into a desperate need for each other in a relationship that seems doomed by circumstances. The descriptions of cool kids being bullies, of how important music is to lost teenagers, and of the growing first love are spot on and make for a pleasant reading experience. NYT:But I have never seen anything quite like “Eleanor & Park.” Rainbow Rowell’s first novel for young adults is a beautiful, haunting love story — but I have seen those. It’s set in 1986, and God knows I’ve seen that. There’s bullying, sibling rivalry, salvation through music and comics, a monstrous stepparent — and I know, we’ve seen all this stuff. But you’ve never seen “Eleanor and Park.” Its observational precision and richness make for very special reading.Some quotes:"Eleanor looked like her mother through a fish tank. Rounder and softer. Slurred. Where her mother was statuesque, Eleanor was heavy. Where her mother was finely drawn, Eleanor was smudged. After five kids, her myother had breasts and hips like a woman in a cigarette ad. At sixteen, Eleanor was already built like she ran a medieval pub.""Thinking about going out with Park, in public, was kind of like thinking about taking your helmet off in space.""Eleanor must have been acting too happy when she got home because her mom followed her to the back of the house like she could smell it on her. (Happiness smelled like Park’s house. Like Skin So Soft and all four food groups.)"
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I picked this up when the Kindle edition was being offered for just a few dollars, and I wanted to see what the hype was about but thought there was a good chance I may not like it since I never read YA. I loved it.

    While the overall themes of high school and young love could absolutely be considered cliche, it's so well written that it never feels cheesy even when I read sections that seemed objectively cheesy. I related to Eleanor and adored Park. This novel was quirky and charming and just made me happy to read.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Beautiful, touching story of two teens who find love when they really need it in this difficult world.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Best for: Young adults who want a love story that isn’t as absurd as Romeo and Juliet but that doesn’t discount their feelings.In a nutshell: Eleanor comes from a fuck-up home. Park does not. Both are a bit outcast-y. Events transpire.Worth quoting: “When Eleanor was around girls like that — like Park’s mom, like Tina, like most of the girls in the neighborhood — she wondered where they put their organs. Like, how could you have a stomach and intestines and kidneys, and still wear such tiny jeans?”Why I chose it: I didn’t realize how many of the most popular CBR books I’d already read. I was sort of avoiding this one as it wasn’t appealing to me, but ultimately I’m glad I read it.Review: This is a very quick read. I got it from the library on Wednesday and finished it Thursday night. Given its popularity, I think there probably isn’t that much more for me to say. But I’ll try…The writing is good, but even though this is such a thoroughly character-driven book, I felt that the characters weren’t that well developed. Am I alone on this? Probably. We seemed to get some more interesting information about these two people prior to them meeting, but it mostly came in the last 10% of the book. I suppose the author was going for just a slice of life, but still, I wanted to know more about Eleanor especially, beyond just not liking how she looks.I also appreciate that Ms. Rowell treated young relationships with such care — she doesn’t condescend, she doesn’t doubt their feelings. She explores them. And that’s pretty awesome.I also like the very, very end. I know it is controversial for some people, but I like it. My copy has an author note where Ms. Rowell addresses this controversy, and I totally got her reasoning. I thought it was pretty cool.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The narrative wasn't quite my style, but I still managed to really get into this story.Endearing and a bit heartbreaking, but with what I think was a promising ending. I kept crossing my fingers in hopes that this wasn't going to go the way of 'Forever', and could show that despite the odds, that even younger love can find authentically happy endings. Even when nothing is easy.Rowell certainly knows how to set the mood, keep a consistent climate, and then turning everything upside down; all of it to the benefit of the pace and the overall story.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This is the kind of YA novel that I'd recommend to my younger sister. It's not stupid and it's not going to rot her mind; there are no helpless caricatures of females and no wildly implausible love stories.

    In fact, it might be the best portrayal of adolescent romance I've ever read-- it almost made me feel like a teenager again myself. Yes, everyone knows that teenagers feel things strongly and their hormones make their emotions almost uncontrollable, but this is the first representation of that forceful feeling that didn't make me roll my eyes. Instead, it made me think fondly of the days when having a crush could completely change your life.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Park is a half Korean high school student who isn't quite an outcast, but hovers close to that category. The last thing he needs is the exceptionally weird looking chubby new girl with wild flaming red hair to sit next to him on the bus.Eleanor is dirt poor, lives with three younger brothers, one younger sister, a mother who has given up on life, and an abusive step-father. And she's stuck every day riding the bus to school with this Asian kid who won't even look at her.And what follows is the most romantic book I've ever read. Eleanor and Park was me with the first girl I ever kissed. It was our short lived love on a school trip overseas, when we had to return home to our families in different towns.Eleanor and Park was me with my first long term girlfriend, who I ached for for months before I ever had the nerve to ask her out.Eleanor and Park was me and the one who got away. The girl I also longed for for months, but never did actually tell her how I felt, because she was Jehovah's Witness and I was Methodist, and I didn't see how that could work long term.And Eleanor and Park was me and the woman I've been so happily married to for the last 14 years, who I wake up still in love with every day.I've never read a book that described so perfectly and so relentlessly what falling in love feels like. Especially the first time.The book is light on plot. But that is not a detriment.Like Eleanor, and like art, this book is supposed to make you feel something. And it succeeds.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Eleanor and Park's story was a mixture of laughs, love, and loss. This book had me all over the place and I enjoyed every bit of it. So glad it ended the way it did. Thank you to all who warned me it wasn't a light read. I am definitely going to be reading more of Rowell's books. Such a great beginning with this author for me. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The only reason this is geting 4 instead of 5 stars is that I found the ending unsatisfying for entirely selfish reasons. I started reading this book at dinner and only put it down to go to the bathroom. I don't remember the last time I read a book in effectively one sitting. And this book was outside of my normal range of books. No scifi or fantasy elements at all. It wasn't historical fiction (though it is set in the 80s).

    The two main characters, the titular Eleanor and Park, meet because Park is too nice to haze the new girl, Eleanor. They sit awkwardly on the bus for way too long, but then an adorkable romance blossoms over Eleanor's interest in Park's X-Men comics. It made me want to be a teenager in the 80s so I could read the comics "live" like they did. The story is told in alternating view points (written in 3rd person. Hallelujah.), sometimes with a little overlap, but as the book and their romance progresses, the stories become more and more in sync, until it's difficult to tell which person's viewpoint we're looking from anyway.

    The main conflict of the books stems from Park's and Eleanor's families (weird genitive, but just roll with it). Park isn't a jock like his little brother, as much as his dad wants him to be. Eleanor's stepdad is abusive, alcoholic, and mean, and her younger siblings don't know how to deal with it either. WIth 5 kids and no child support coming from her previous marriage, Eleanor's mom is at her wits' end trying to keep everyone clothed and fed and out of trouble. Eleanor's friendship with Park is an escape from her home life, but it comes challenges as she tries to fit in to "normal" society with Park's family. At least they have music, and comic books, and references to Han Solo. They argue over whether X-Men is sexist and give each other mixtapes. It's adorable and I couldn't put it down.

    My high school life was NOTHING like this. But I bet some people's was. It feels realistic somehow.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This book was cute. I think overall it was quite good. The characters were well written. I think she did a good job of portraying 'young love'. The ending wasn't the best - felt a little lacking/rushed. There were a couple of awkward stereotypes used. But her writing is easy reading, so it doesn't take all the long to get through.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A story about first loves, drama, and trying to hold on to the most important person in your life while finding yourself.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This is young adult or some other category for teenagers dealing with families, school, the big future out in front of them. This one does it better than most.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I read this book in two days. I couldn't put it down. I loved everything about it.