Review: Paper Towns by John Green

 

Paper Towns is a book by John Green, first published in 2010 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

Quentin Jacobsen has always loved Margo Roth Speilgelman from afar, but now it's time for Quentin to find out what Margo is really like-not the just the idea of her. When Margo disappears without warning, it's 'normal'. But when Quentin finds clues, and when it becomes a longer and longer time without her living next door, it's time to find her.

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"Here's what's not beautiful about it: from here, you can't see the rust or the cracked paint or whatever, but you can tell what the place really is. You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town. I mean look at it, Q: look at all those cul-de-sacs, those streets that turn in on themselves, all the houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. 

All the paper kids drinking beer some bum bought for them at the paper convenience store. Everyone demented with the mania of owning things. All the things paper-thin and paper-frail. And all the people, too. I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters."

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The one thing I thought while reading this is it is quite unlike any other John Green books I have read. If it's even possible, I think Paper Towns is actually deeper than Looking For Alaska or The Fault in Our Stars.

No, I'm going to correct myself there. It's not deeper, it's just different. And not necessarily in a bad way. In fact, not in a bad way at all. And thus, I loved this book in a different way to others. But definitely not more or less. Just different. 

-Beth

Happy Reading!♥