BOOK REVIEW: PAPER TOWNS BY JOHN GREEN

Genre: Mystery, young adult.

Everything’s uglier close up -John Green, paper towns.

Paper towns has a mystery attached to it, a deep yet simple mystery.

This is a story of Margo Roth Spiegelman, one of the most popular in high school, famous for her legendary basically, how she disappears for a few days and comes back with adventurous stories. She has a childhood friend and neighbor, Quentin Jacobsen, a boy that lives through boring routines and hates the idea of prom and loves the idea of being bored. Although they are neighbors that spent their childhood playing together and saw the body of a man together at the park when they were young , Margo and Quentin lived in two totally different worlds and only built up ideas about one another from the windows, until a crack in their lives exposed them to who the other person really is and made them get to know one another.

After an unforgettable night adventure together, during which Margo took revenge on her fake friends and boyfriend with Quentin’s help, she disappeared but like always, left behind clues of her whereabouts.

One of the most important lessons I’d say this book exposes its readers to is getting to really know people, getting to understand them and accepting the reality that comes with it.

I appreciate John Green, because of a lot of things, the way he weaves words together and forms a huge wide dark room with them, where I can hide my head from everything around me, slowly trace out a source of light, and lit myself up, and fly on the same words, round and round in the warm brightness of this beautiful light source, and still lost in these words, fly out and back into the world. The beautiful thing is how I’m always left with a share of the beauty that my little adventure brings with it, even after it ends.

And is it a coincidence that in his two books I’ve read so far, one of his characters had 3 names instead of two or one like the others and he talked about another book, practically makes the story revolve around the other book that his main character likes. Why i love this author is how he uses words to make a logic out of events, i think he has a beautiful way with words.

Margo didn’t turn out to be as wise as she seemed afterall, and what made her that way, into thinking she could just go about and live as she deems? Because she thinks the normal routine of life is boring, i would say there are better and more realistic ways to do it. Quentin was just annoying at a point, it was very funny how his entire attention shifted from his own life at a point, and whoever wasn’t helping in his search was not a friend. I think The fault in our stars was a better work, something i can’t figure out about Papertowns isn’t up to it.

So about stars, it would be between 3–3.5 from me.