Paper Towns (Book Review)

Paper Towns
John Green
Published 2008 by Dutton Books

Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back 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 of the girl he thought he knew.





Review:

YA Genres:

Romance
Historical Fiction
Sci-Fi
Fantasy
Contemporary

And then there is John Green, he is in a genre all of his own.
This is my third John Green novel, after really liking The Fault In Our Stars and thinking that Looking for Alaska was ok I wanted to pick up Paper Towns to try it out.

The first 1/3 of the book was both hilarious and captivating. I loved the chemistry between Q and Margo.
After that, I wasn't really loving the story. The plot didn't interest me and I wasn't crazy about all of the "mature content" of the book.

The Characters:
For the first 1/3 of the book I was LOVING the characters. Q and Margo were so funny together, and I was laughing along with there entire night of (you'll see). After the first 1/3 I slowly started to dislike both of them. Although disliking Margo took only 1 chapter, Q took a while for my dislike of him to set in.
Part of the reason is I honestly don't like reading books in the guys point of view only. I don't mind alternating points of view, but only in the guys point of view frustrates me.
I had hoped for more of a romance in this book, so in that way comparing it to The Fault In Our Stars this was a huge disappointment.

The plot was just OK....Although a high five to John Green for such a unique story line, I just wasn't really getting it.


Altogether I did think this one was good. But I also think that I was hoping for something as good as The Fault In Our Stars, which this definitely is not. If you liked Looking for Alaska, you will probably like this one....Because I liked the two of them about equally