Paper Towns (John Green)

The final John Green review! That is, until Turtles All The Way Down comes out!

Paper Towns is the story of Q, a teenage boy who used to be friends with a beautiful mystery called Margo. He dismisses this as just a childhood friendship until Margo slips into his window one night and sends them both on a cross country roller coaster ride.

So, as I have said before I was not a huge fan of Looking For Alaska (I enjoyed the plot and the structure but the narrator was the most uniquely dull person I've ever read about) and the same goes for Paper Towns. I'm not really a big fan of the whole "boy with no personality whatsoever gets enraptured in the mystery of this beautiful but troubled girl" storyline. Paper Towns was funny and well written and contained some excellent pranks as well as some lovely quotes, but I could not get into it the way I could get into The Fault in Our Stars and An Abundance of Katherines. Like Looking For Alaska, it's a great book for romance fans and has some hilarious side characters but it's just not my favorite.