goodreads | An Abundance of Katherines

Title: An Abundance of Katherines
Author: John Green
Genre: YA
Rating: 3.5/5
# pages: 213
Date read: October, 2014

Katherine V thought boys were gross
Katherine X just wanted to be friends
Katherine XVIII dumped him in an e-mail
K-19 broke his heart
When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton's type happens to be girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact.

On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washed-up child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, and an overweight, Judge Judy-loving best friend riding shotgun--but no Katherines. Colin is on a mission to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, which he hopes will predict the future of any relationship, avenge Dumpees everywhere, and finally win him the girl. Love, friendship, and a dead Austro-Hungarian archduke add up to surprising and heart-changing conclusions in this ingeniously layered comic novel about reinventing oneself.

It took me quite awhile to figure out where on earth this book was heading. It is completely different from "Looking for Alaska" and "The Fault in Our Stars" both in atmosphere and writing style, which took some getting used to.

I did end up liking it though. I wasn't quite as blown away by it as I've been by John Green's other books, but it was a decent enough read, and I did laugh out loud on several occasions - especially at some of the footnotes!

I really liked the three main characters, and loved reading their interactions. Despite the misleading title and back-blurb, this isn't a YA romance - it's a story about friendships... actually sort of like "The Perks of Being a Wallflower".