ELEANOR & PARK BOOK REVIEW BY JAYSHREE SRIDHAR

Once after finishing Fangirl, I couldn't stop myself from reading her books so I picked Eleanor and Park and Oh GOD!!

Let's just begin with a standing ovation to the wonderful Rainbow Rowell for giving us this book. MAJORLY Because she doesn't want to kill off characters for the sake of adding pain or 'Value' to the story. Yet...She does something to you that makes you go like...

Eleanor and Park are so vivid, so unique, so much together and so much more apart. That is what hits you really hard in this book, you just can't take it when they are apart. The book brilliantly explains the insecurities that almost every girl goes through, every change a boy goes through at a certain stage of their life.

The book makes you feel what it is like to be loved, what it's like when you have that one person with you and all problems don't matter anymore. 

The story is set in 1980's, with music, comics and sneaky phone calls you can actually feel yourself standing there watching it all happen. The high school love unfolds itself in the most beautiful way. To be honest, the relationship between Park and Eleanor, or even their relationship with other members of the family, seems almost unrealistic for today, but the point is you hope it's true.

You hope people like Eleanor exist, You hope people like Park exist. You hope People like Park would do anything for people like Eleanor. You realize falling in love was never cliche. You realize how good it feels to have someone who's the Sun for you. 

I also liked Park's parents who made it work everytime with each other no matter how ugly the situation is. And thats why like Park, I was curious too to know how his parents met. 

So read the book. Just read it. Feel it, Cry, Smile, Love, and thank the author once you do. She brought back all the good feelings inside back to life. She made you feel young and happy again.

You know what I do when I'm overwhelmed with happiness...

STAR SHOWERS!!!

I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT THE THREE WORDS. DO NOT ASK ME. IT'S A HAPPY ENDING. MAKE PEACE WITH IT AND GO BACK TO CRYING.

Tell me what you think about the book in the comments below.

Loads of Love

Jayshree Sridhar

FANGIRL - BOOK REVIEW BY JAYSHREE SRIDHAR

Life was going on with just another lame regular day when a friend of mine handed over these 500 pages of emotional roller coaster to me.  I just finished reading the book 'Fangirl', written by Rainbow Rowell and trust me my beloved children. This book is a bigger rainbow than the writer herself. And I mean that in a positive way. Shh, There may be spoilers down here!

The genre is teen drama (I hate generalizing this book to such a broad category but then it gives you the idea) and very beautifully mirrors the feelings of an introvert, when she has to face college and new people on her own without any support.

Rainbow Rowell is an excellent story teller especially when it comes to writing romantic scenes. She is definitely not cheesy, she is hard core realistic and she explains romance the way the way I have never imagined it could be and the way I always wanted it to be. I would say she is a goddess at explaining body language and trust me, that is one of the main reasons you'll be lost in the world of Fangirl.

Character definition is brilliant. I AM HEAD OVER HEELS IN LOVE WITH LEVI and I cannot love him anymore.  Another best character was Reagan, she was just too perfect and too real. She is that bitch-ass best friend you'd want to keep for life. And of course, CATH! There were countless instances I could relate to Cath. Being an introvert fangirl myself, there were so many times I screamed at the book saying, 'Yo Soul Sister! Where have you been?'

The portrayal of the relationship between the twins, their differences, their ideas about social life being so different, everything is beautifully brought into words. I adored the father character, there was sufficient depth given to single parenthood and teenage daughters’ drama. On the whole, the bonding between Wren, Cath and their father is very real and moving.

The chemistry between Levi and Cath (let me inhale some oxygen here, I'm dying) is something I have never seen in any movie or book. It is completely raw and honest and it sets relationship goals and that’s why I hate Rainbow Rowell a little now. For a woman who claims she doesn't know blushing, I blushed the blood out of my cheeks in this book.  (Now that explanation was kinda gross. I blushed a lot. They were just awesome. Period.)

I have only one complaint in the book. The ending of the story was abrupt and it didn’t have a proper climax where the reader could actually bid goodbye to the story, it kind of lingers around you for a very long time and suddenly you are craving for more and can't take it anymore. And that probably is the plan of the writer. Well, you fucked me up pretty well, thanks Rowell.

A part of the book contains excerpts of the books that Cath fan girls over and excerpts of the fan fiction that she writes herself of her favorite characters (understatement) which if you are not very keen on fantasy and magical world won't read.

On the whole Fangirl is a package that you want to read again and again. Because you just can't get enough of this book in one time.

Good news, Fangirl leaves a lot of hope for a sequel of the book which may or may not happen. What the future holds for Levi and Cath, what happened to Lauren, a little more detail on Wren and Jandro, man! These details would could create a book of its own and I'd read the shit out of that book too. The writer though does not confirm on that. 

So on the whole the point is...Fangirling over Fangirl right now and gonna shower it with stars. There you go!