John Green has become one of my favorite authors and he's starting to get me and an abundance of others to start reading again, with his books such as Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, and the ever-so-popular The Fault in Our Stars, which I've all read.
Mr. Green, since you're also on the Internet with your brother Hank in the vlogbrothers, I hope someday you run across this blog post (which in reality, is possible with a 1/1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000th chance) and see what have I say about your book.
Without furthur or do, let's get started.
Paper Towns Book Review
Fact Box-Paper Towns
Author: John Green
Genre(s): Realistic Fiction, Mystery
Publishers: Speak (Penguin Group)
Page #: 305
Recommended Reading Level: Mature teens
General Impressions: Like most John Green books, a great book with interesting characters, edgy but realistic, and quotable quotes, but not as strong of an ending
Summary: Based in Orlando, Florida, the story centers around older teen Quentin "Q" Jacobson, starting with a flashback to when he was younger with his neighbor/friend Margo Roth Spiegelman when they discover a dead man in the nearby park. The friends start to drift apart and go their separate directons, but even through those years, Quentin starts to fall for Margo---secretly, of course. Now a high school senior, Quentin focuses on school, work, and getting into a good college, not interested in prom and parties like his friends, Ben, a immature, perverted but good-natured jokster, and Radar, a geeky, lovable guy who's family owns the second largest collections of Black Santas in the world, do. But when the wildly eccentric, strikingly beautiful and breathtakingly adventorous Margo leads him into an all-nighter of vengance, disappearing the next day when Quentin feels they've connected more, he starts to move his focus in finding her. Through the searching, he starts to wonder if Margo is the girl he thought she was.
What I Liked: I loved the great and well-developed characters along with the compelling plot. It was a realistic story with relatable themes such as friendship and love, beautifully-intertwining Quentin's high school life and his journey literally down the beaten path to look for Margo together. References to Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" make for an intriguing, thought-provoking twist as well, used by Quentin to track down his love and understand life metaphorically.
What I Disliked: The only thing wrong was the ending, which I can't really explain since it'll spoil the book for you, but for me it just seemed to end too abruptly, there were some loose ends that never tied up, it made up forget about everything else in the book, focusing on this one part, and it just becomes cliched and unrealistic.
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