Plus, who didn’t want an eyeliner-wearing comic-dork ninja for a boyfriend at 16? I know I did.Įleanor’s social situation reminded me of grade school. They were both likable but if I had to pick one, the choice is easy. But Park was cool, some things I wanted to be: bold, independent, strong. It’s the parts of me I didn’t like: over-analytical, concerned about appearance, quick to anger. Eleanor was too much like me in some ways. I loved that they read Alan Moore comics together. I think Rowell taps into that book-nerd past many readers share and makes you remember the beauty of it. This sat in the middle but on the Fangirl end of the spectrum.
Of her books, I think Attachments had the most conclusive ending and Fangirl had the most vague. What if they were “Forget about me?” Do we really know? I wanted something more conclusive.
I know what I’m supposed to think the three words were, “I love you.” By I’m a cynic. (SPOILERS FOR THE REST OF THIS PARAGRAPH) I wanted more from the ending, but that’s not how Rowell writes. In some ways I was happy with it, but in other ways I was disappointed. I kept reading as fast as I could to see if the characters would have the ending I thought they deserved. We’re all a bit red-headed misfit and half-Korean punk. How does Rowell write characters that are so much like me and every other person who reads her books? Honestly, I see myself in Eleanor and Park and I know I’m not the only one saying that. 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. There’s a place on his chest, just below his throat, that makes her want to keep promises…Park. He laughs at her jokes before she ever gets to the punch line. Park… He knows she’ll love a song before he plays it for her. Making everyone else seem drabber and flatter and never good enough…Eleanor. Standing behind him until he turns his head.
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