So yes I actually forgot that I wrote a review for this on my shiddy BlackBerry. I just found and decided yo post it. 
 And this is how I feel. Like, I speak like a teenager. I do. Sometimes I feel really smart and I talk like an adult but mostly I speak like a teenager. And while reading Eleanor & Park, I felt like a teenager. I felt young. What I'm trying to say is that it's relatable to these so called 'nowadays youth'. I'm not 16 and I never once had such deep and meaningful things about any guy I've ever liked at 16 but still it's relatable. Eleanor seems to have her feelings in order, jus saying. What I can't get the f*ck over, is the ending!!!!! The ending is a terrible and unfulfilling mess!!! It wasn't written badly. No no no. I'm beginning to really enjoy Rainbow's complicated, round about writing style (saying this with the least bit of sarcasm in my body). I am. The way she switches between characters constantly and how I'm sometimes stuck on one character and only realise when we switch back. Yeah I'm loving it. Okay that was a bit of sarcasm ... But the ending !!! 
 So Eleanor is the weird girl. She looks weird, she dresses weird she does weird things. She even thinks weird thoughts. She's even described as the "big girl" in the school. Big as in fat. And Park loves that about her. He's Asian. Well half Asian. Living in a white neighbourhood. He's weird by default. He's weird only because he's one of a kind. Otherwise he's normal. I mean come on, he's just Asian; the only thing about him that really stands out. What I like about the characters is that by themselves... They're so cool. Like if I had to have weird friends I'd pick friends like them. And then together, wow. I felt as if I was part of the relationship. It was that captivating. I'm telling you Rainbow knows how to use words. I think my fave quote - and you can tell because I quoted it on tumblr - is : "She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it 
 was supposed to make you feel something." 
 I also really love "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." I found it spectacular that two young persons could feel that deeply about each other. But even through all the school drama and girl drama, the parents mess and boyfriend mess I can only rant over this ending! This mutha lovin ending. Some may say its a master piece. To end things so mysterious and romantic. You ever craved a perfect ending? I've read a lot of "perfect-ending" books. And I was so caught up in the Eleanor & Park story- no, masterpiece - that the ending actually slapped me on the nose. A very hard slap. Devastating.