Paper Towns - John Green

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Title: Paper Towns
Author: John Green
Genre: YA
Rating: 3.5/5
# pages: 305
Date read: May, 2016

Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs into his life - dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge - he follows. After their all-nighter ends, and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues—and they're for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees the girl he thought he knew


I watched the movie before reading the book, and don't know if that had any influence of my enjoyment of the book. It's ridiculously readable, just like John Green's other books, but I don't think it packed the same punch that "Looking for Alaska" and "The Fault in Our Stars" did.

I didn't care much for neither 'Q' or Margo (one too insecure, the other too self-centered), but I absolutely loved the road-trip Q, Ben, Radar and Lacey went on to find Margo. Those chapters made the book, with its depiction of the easy friendship between the four of them.

I think I liked this ending better than the one in the movie though. There seemed to be more closure for all of them.