“Paper Towns” by John Green is the third book I’ve read by John Green so far and he hasn’t let me down. This book tells the story of a high school Senior Quentin who has always loved this girl Margo, but had never really talked to her – except when they found a dead guy in a park at the age of nine.
Now being the last month before graduation, Margo slips through his window one night, asking him to goy on a revenge tour. That night the two teenagers make up for all the bad things people have ever done to them and Quentin finally feels like he knows Margo. But does he really? Because the next day, she isn’t turning up at school. To be honest, Margo has always been wild – she left the city several times without telling her parents for over a week and has never been afraid to break into houses.
But Quentin can’t just unsee the fact that he feels like she wants to find him, so together with his friends Ben and Radar he picks up trails to solve the mystery about Margo and to reveal her true self.
In my opinion, this book is really filled with a lot of fantasy, imagination and humor. The characters are well thought of and resemble different personalities and qualities. The search for Margo is addicting to read because you can never be quite sure that you have found the right Margo because of the many different Margo’s revealed along side the journey of finding her. It is amazing to be able to see inside the head of a person you didn’t get to know and to see what Margo’s world is made of.
Quentin is a lovely character because he resembles the kind of person who would go through hell for you and who does not quit after everybody else has given up on you.
Although the end is not as fascinating as I imagined it, this book is really worth reading.
SPOILER ALERT: Do not keep reading if you have any interest in still reading the book because it would spoil you the whole search!!! The thing being that Margo left Orlando because she couldn’t take it any longer and wanted to travel is a little lame in my opinion. For quite a while you think that Margo would turn up dead and that could have been played with – a suicide trip or something like that. Another while I thought of Margo as a bitch (sorry for using swear words but this is the only way I can describe her right now) because she made Quentin worry for over a month, without a letter and then when they finally find her she doesn’t even react appropriately. I know that gets sorted out but I kind of found the ending disappointing.
So, even with the end a little disappointing, this book is really amazing to read, you get stuck up in the journey and wonder yourself: Who and Where is the REAL Margo?
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