Title: Paper Town
Author: John Green
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Quentin has always loved Margo Roth Spiegelman, for Margo (and her adventures) are the stuff of legend at their high school. So when she one day climbs through his window and summons him on an all-night road trip of revenge he cannot help but follow.
But the next day Margo doesn’t come to school and a week later she is still missing. Q soon learns that there are clues in her disappearance . . . and they are for him. But as he gets deeper into the mystery – culminating in another awesome road trip across America – he becomes less sure of who and what he is looking for.
Paper Towns is the second book by John Green that I had the pleasure to read and although many people will probably say that The Fault In Our Stars is the best of John Green’s books, I believe it to be Paper Towns. It hooks you in within the first few pages, and holds onto you right until the end, whilst managing to prove just how much of a literary genius Green is. For those who don’t know, that is a lot. He is setting the bar high!
Ok, when I first went into this I just assumed it was going to be another sappy little love story where someone feels brokenhearted, but continues to yearn for the other. Although, it has elements of this, that isn’t all Paper Towns is. No! Not at all! This story is more about searching for something more and finding a truth you were missing, as well as the idea of being lost symbolizing how we all feel at some point and just knowing how to deal with it. Deep, right?
There were the elements of adventure and mystery which were interwoven amazingly within the plot and made this love story so different. There is just a sense of excitement that you don’t get in many other books of this caliber or genre.
Quentin is by far one of the most kindhearted characters I have come across, and starts off as very vulnerable, but as the book quickly progresses through, you see him become much stronger in himself and way more attuned to the different situations he and the other characters are facing. It is definitely a wonderful character development.
Margo on the other hand, was a character I couldn’t fully identify with in the book, but ended up liking more in the movie. With the book, She seemed a little bit too much like two dimensional character to me, not developed quite enough, with too many flaws to her persona, and that really seemed to aggravate me at times as I saw it as a hindrance to the over all story line as well as to Quentin as a character. I am quite torn really.
Overall though, it is a great read, with some amazing moments which make it quite the journey of self discovery, and an awesome coming of age story. I just really need John Green to write more books! ASAP! Please.
Looks like an interesting book
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It really is! You should definitely give it a go 🙂
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I will do my best
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Loved this post! Absolutely love John Green’s books, think he has such a unique way with words!! I’ve just finished writing about my time exploring Los Angeles – would love it if you’d give it a read, and maybe like/comment if you have the time. Keep up the blog. Love reading it.
https://heyitsjessamyn.com/2017/04/23/hollywood-ihop-exploring-la/
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So true! He is so good! Oh and I will check your post out 🙂
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i can 100% agree with you! i read TFIOS and i loved it, i loved the writing and the plot, so i decided to read Paper Towns. that was the best decision i’ve made in my life (just kidding), but i LOVED, LOVED, LOVED the book!! i fell in love with it within the first few pages. and may i say, Quentin had me in my knees begging God to bring me a boy like him into my life haha. lovely post!
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