Review of Eleanor & Park

By Rainbow Rowell

Rainbow Rowell (which is an amazing name, by the way) truly knows how to represent the minority. A relatively fat girl named Eleanor with a father issue moves to a new school and meets mixed race Park, and they fall in love and have a wonderful relationship full of romantic tension and making out. This is one of the rare few books that I have read about a half Korean and fat girl protagonist (if you know of any more, please let me know). And it isn't the minority representation that makes this book good; it's the beautiful style of writing that Rowell has. By cutting out the unnecessary redundancy and getting right to the good parts without leaving out the romantic tension, Rowell is a skillful teenage romance author. If you like love stories, you definitely need to read this.