Paper Towns by John Green

Synopsis

Who is the real Margo?

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...

Rating: DNF'd

Review:

I finally decided to pick up my first John Green book after having it on my shelf for 3 years and I dnf'd it after 43%. I just couldn't take the slow moving plot anymore.

I didn't understand why John Green felt the need to literally tell us which characters were black. I just felt like he could have described them better than just flat out using African American as a description. Also, it was so annoying to see Quentin constantly count down his reasoning for every single thing. It's all just quite ANNOYING.

I honestly don't like Margo as a character and I'm not sure if I was supposed to. She's snooty, entitled, selfish, and a bad influence but I did like her vindictive attitude. It made for a nice journey in the beginning before things turned completely boring. I didn't care for Quentin either because he was too old, in my opinion, to be such a push over and doormat. I didn't think any of the characters had any real growth because I read the last couple of chapters and Margo still seemed like the same asshole she was the beginning and Quentin is still her personal doormat. It's sad to say but I didn't feel a connection with any of the characters.


I did get some humor from this but then it started to feel like John Green didn't know when to end the jokes and it got dryer the longer it drug on. I finally decided to end my Paper Towns journey when I realize that the clues took entirely way too long to get through and I quickly lost interest. This the end of my journey for Paper Towns but not the end of my John Green experience.