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Review: Paper Towns by John Green

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Title: Paper Towns

Author: John Green

Series: None

Genre: Contemporary

Publishing Date: October 16, 2008

Publisher: Dutton Juvenile

Medium Read In: Hardcover

Pages: 305

Rating: 4.5 Stars

Why I Read It: One of my summer reading goals is to read more John Green books.

Synopsis: 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 Q gets, the less Q sees the girl he thought he knew.

Review: I have to say that I'm not all to sure how I feel about this book. I enjoyed the story yes, but there was just something I just could not get past. And THAT was Quentin. Quentin throughout the book just got on my nerves. He was so obsessed with Margo that he could not stop trying a way to find her. Even when everyone kept telling him that Margo was just being Margo, he would not stop looking for her. UGH!!!! I just couldn't stand Quentin at all.

Margo even though she was an enigma was a good character. I loved how she wanted to get revenge on all those who did her wrong before she left. Margo was crazy, but a good crazy. I wish I could have read more about her character before she left her town, but I wouldn't change Margo for the world.

All in all this was a pretty good book and I can now see why it will be a movie. I will definitely be seeing the movie so I can compare it to the book.

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