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A review by ceskayyy
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
3.0
Okay so Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine was MUCH darker than I originally anticipated and I really wish I had known that before reading it.
After seeing the blurb and plethora of reviews marketing it as a quirky, “incredibly funny” romantic comedy (yes I’m looking at you, Reese Witherspoon), I went into the book completely expecting some cute chick lit when in actuality it was anything but.
When I figured out what exactly had happened to Eleanor, I genuinely felt mad... on her behalf. The way that all those reviews touted the book as this charming “sweet romance” totally trivialized her actual story and the many triggering topics that came with it and I hated that I could never really get into or appreciate the heaviness and depth of it all as it was just not the light-hearted book I had wanted to read and had been led to believe I was in fact reading.
If only the blurb and reviews had been a bit more transparent about the dark realities of the story—maybe then I might have actually been able to give it a fair chance.
After seeing the blurb and plethora of reviews marketing it as a quirky, “incredibly funny” romantic comedy (yes I’m looking at you, Reese Witherspoon), I went into the book completely expecting some cute chick lit when in actuality it was anything but.
When I figured out what exactly had happened to Eleanor, I genuinely felt mad... on her behalf. The way that all those reviews touted the book as this charming “sweet romance” totally trivialized her actual story and the many triggering topics that came with it and I hated that I could never really get into or appreciate the heaviness and depth of it all as it was just not the light-hearted book I had wanted to read and had been led to believe I was in fact reading.
If only the blurb and reviews had been a bit more transparent about the dark realities of the story—maybe then I might have actually been able to give it a fair chance.