Rainbow Rowell

Eleanor and Park

eleanor and park

Eleanor and Park By: Rainbow Rowell

Plot:

Eleanor… Red hair, wrong clothes. Standing behind him until he turns his head. Lying beside him until he wakes up. Making everyone else seem drabber and flatter and never good enough…Eleanor. Park… He knows she’ll love a song before he plays it for her. He laughs at her jokes before she ever gets to the punch line. There’s a place on his chest, just below his throat, that makes her want to keep promises…Park. Set over the course of one school year, this is the story of two star-crossed sixteen-year-olds—smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try.

Review:

Oh my god the feels. So many emotions. So many tears. This book was… so… I want to say incredible but that’s not the right word. I can’t think of the perfect word for this book. It wasn’t a roller coaster of emotion it was pretty much nonstop tears for me.

I guessed who was writing the notes on her books fairly quickly but there were enough red herrings to make me question myself.

Rowell creates characters that are just real enough. They have their quirks and you can almost believe that they really exist but they’re just too awesome. If I was ever in a room with her characters I would be too awestruck by their collective awesome to say anything.

Maybe I just judge people to harshly and people like this really exist, but I don’t think so, at least not in my world. Awesome book, must buy.

5/5

Fangirl

fangirl

Fangirl By: Rainbow Rowell

Plot:

Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan… But for Cath, being a fan is her life—and she’s really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it’s what got them through their mother leaving. Reading. Rereading. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums, writing Simon Snow fan fiction, dressing up like the characters for every movie premiere. Cath’s sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath can’t let go. She doesn’t want to. Now that they’re going to college, Wren has told Cath she doesn’t want to be roommates. Cath is on her own, completely outside of her comfort zone. She’s got a surly roommate with a charming, always-around boyfriend, a fiction-writing professor who thinks fan fiction is the end of the civilized world, a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words… And she can’t stop worrying about her dad, who’s loving and fragile and has never really been alone. For Cath, the question is: Can she do this? Can she make it without Wren holding her hand? Is she ready to start living her own life? Writing her own stories? And does she even want to move on if it means leaving Simon Snow behind?
Review:

I love Rainbow Rowell. I like to think if I ever met her we’d be friends.

*sigh*

Creepiness over.

Rowell creates great characters. People I understand and like to think I’d get along with. The people she writes are people I wish I met in real life. Maybe I’m just not getting out enough. Probably.

Fangirl could have easily been about me at that age. Well except for the twin sister, and the horrible mom, and the whole writing fanfiction. Cath is like an uber introvert and that’s how I was, or really wanted to be but I forced myself to leave more than she did. Of course I wasn’t an emotional wreck like Cath was, I guess that’s why my life isn’t a novel.

Oh well.

Awesome book, horrible review, this happens when I love a book/movie/tv show too much.

5/5