This book is such a mystery and it makes me hate it and love it at the same time.  But really I just loved it.  It’s too sweet of a story to hate it!  There are sad parts and I did hate the ending but overall it was a cute book.

Eleanor has just moved back into her mother’s house with four younger siblings and a step dad that she won’t claim as a father.  She meets Park on the bus to school because he lets her sit with him so that she won’t get bullied by his friends.  They start to talk eventually because he notices her reading his comic books with him on the way to school.  Park starts loaning the books to her and they start dating secretly because her step dad is overly controlling and tells her she is a bad person for dating anyone.  When Richie, the step dad, finds out, all hell breaks loose and Eleanor finds out how much Park really cares for her.

Rowell also wrote Fangirl, which is another excellent book I would suggest.  Eleanor and Park was a quick read.  I did like this book but it wasn’t my favorite one ever.  It took me a while to figure out what was going on in Eleanor’s house and how it got to be that way.  If you read Fangirl and liked it, I would recommend this one too.