Eleanor is the new girl in town, and with her chaotic family life, her mismatched clothes and unruly red hair, she couldn't stick out more if she tried.
Park is the boy at the back of the bus. Black T-shirts, headphones, head in a book - he thinks he's made himself invisible. But not to Eleanor... never to Eleanor.
Slowly, steadily, through late-night conversations and an ever-growing stack of mix tapes, Eleanor and Park fall for each other. They fall in love the way you do the first time, when you're young, and you feel as if you have nothing an everything left to lose.
I was 85% positive that I would not like this book, in fact I was so sure that I bought it just to prove myself right. Well, I was wrong. Sometimes books are just so hyped up that when you finally get the chance to read them you just feel so remarkably underwhelmed that you want to sob in a corner. Not Eleanor and Park. Oh no, the characters are constructed so eloquently that you're with them for their journey, as if you were their closest friend.
I swooned over Park, I wanted to hug Eleanor, her siblings and her mother, and I really wanted to punch Tina in the face for the majority of it. It's a book that gets under your skin in such a way that has you thinking about it for many days later.
To put it simply, I felt all of the feelings. To put it in an even simpler way, it is a masterpiece.
If you have yet to discover this fantastic piece of literature, then please head out to your favourite bookshop or Amazon and buy it. Honestly, this story of first loves and 80's references will make you fall in love with reading all over again.
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