Chrissy’s Review: Paper Towns by John Green

Paper Towns
written by John Green
published by Speak, 2008

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Did I enjoy this book: It was okay, and I wanted to see how it ended. But, for me, it just didn’t meet my expectations.

My first experience with John Green was The Fault In Our Stars, and I was blown away by it. (You can read my 5-star review here.) After I finished that book, I started looking for another Green book to read. I set my sights on Paper Towns. Then I heard it was going to be a movie. It had some great reviews, too. However, it didn’t live up to the hype and promise for me.

Let’s break it down. Margo is a selfish brat. Quentin is a lost puppy searching for something. Ben and Radar are the ever-faithful sidekicks. The story took a while to get into, and I found myself bored. The road trip was my favorite part. It was funny, and you could see these four friends doing this trip. The rest of the book . . . it was a bit unforgettable.

Would I recommend it: Meh. Even though I wanted to finish it, I wouldn’t recommend this one.

About the book – from Goodreads: 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…