Eleanor & Park | Reading Challenge

I absolutely love reading but over the past couple of years I have found it difficult to find the time. At the beginning of this month I set myself a reading challenge, this is something I set myself every year but this time I think I may be able to stick to it. I currently have way too many books left on my shelf unread and every time I look at it I feel a little bit guilty.
Like every teenage girl I cant resist young adult fiction, particularly ones that I feel I can relate to. These usually feature a slightly awkward young girl.

The first book I decided to read on my new journey was Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell, which I'm sure many people have already read so I'm pretty late on the bandwagon.

I'm a bit of a cringe, I love reading about people falling in love. Although sometimes I do get tired of the cliche slightly awkward, unconventional girl falling in love with a perfect boy I still very much enjoyed this story, so much so that I managed to read the whole book within a week.

The writing style of this book is quite different to a lot of the books that I have read from this genre. The book is written in third person which took a little getting used to at first because most young adult books are written from the perspective of the 'awkward' girl. Another thing that was different about the style of this book was the perspective change multiple times each chapter. Normally when books are written from both characters perspective a new chapter marks the change of perspective. Although this style was different I actually quite prefer it, I like that it allows you to have a better idea of how each character is feeling in each scenario.

Another thing that made this book stand out to me was that an effort was made to not ignore the drama and minor paranoia that comes with a new relationship and getting to know the person, finding out about who their exes are, who was their first kiss, etc. I liked that this was included in the book as it really made the love story a little more believable.

I also particularly enjoyed the nerdy comic book references, they made me smile a little bit as they remind me of my own boyfriend, like I said, I'm a bit of a cringe.

I really enjoyed reading a love story again. I hope that this will get me back into reading them. My plan at the moment is to post one book post a month, this will hopefully encourage me! I'm also trying to get back into using Goodreads. If you would like to follow me on there Click Here.
As always, thank you for reading and I hoped you enjoyed.

-Chloe

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