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Having just read a recent young adult romance, I can say that I enjoyed this one much better and can recommend it to my tween daughter. The language is not foul and the romance in it builds slowly from a friendship rather than being so hot and heavy from the start. I don't particularly care for protagonists that can insult others as they desire and the others still love and appreciate them without much confrontation and pure acceptance, but that seems to be a trend I am moving in some young adul
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Eleanor is the new kids in school who dresses strangely. Park is the half Korean kid who is into music and comics and who doesn't quite fit in. Park reluctantly lets Eleanor share his seat on the bus and the two slowly become boyfriend and girlfriend. Eleanor has a lot of family issues and of the two main characters I found her to be the more interesting one. Not an earthshaking story but I did find myself slowly being sucked in and in the end i didn't want the book to end. I enjoyed Rowell's wr
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I read YA lit and liked it.
It started out okay but it became tedious and I lost interest. Too bad.
Mar 18, 2013
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