I have heard the author speak at length about how books and movies are different art forms and should be viewed as such, so don’t be surprised to see changes. This book could easily be read in one sitting if time allowed. Boy meets girl, unrequited love, road trip, messed up girl, intellectual teens, and great, quirky friends. Knowing that this was his third book, and knowing LFA, The Abundance of Katherines & what was to come in TFiOS, I think it has a great mix of all of the John Green elements. I could have read another 100 pages, but I’m glad that Green has a great editor. I thought the end was a bit rushed, but all in all I liked it. Also the fact that Q loved her but didn’t know her (and vice versa) is really true to life at any age.
I remember being a teen and I think she is a great look at being a teen, expectations, hormones, home life, and possible mental illness. I’ve read plenty of reviews where adults said they didn’t like Margo and couldn’t find any goodness in her. (Yes, I realize those are really broad generalizations, but you get the point.) I enjoyed the mystery elements of the story, and the fact that it was more than formulaic. John just happens to write intellectual teenagers with unrequited crushes, where someone like Sarah Dessen writes realistic girls in beachy towns and Stephen King writes horror. I understand what some readers (mainly adults) say about the similarity in his main characters, but I think all writers tend to get that way.
Since I love Looking for Alaska (LFA) & The Fault in Our Stars (TFiOS), I can find those classic John Green elements in this. I am glad I decided to give the book another chance. This in itself is a detriment because I will never have my own mental image of Q and Margo as anyone other than Nat & Cara. Obviously since the movie is coming out soon I needed to read it first. I have tried to tackle Paper Towns twice, once in hardcover and once as an audio. She has left him a breadcrumb trail of clues and Q is determined to piece them all together and find her before it is too late. Now that Margo has vanished, Q is learning more about this spunky legend and unrequited love of his life. The second was the night before Margo disappeared the night she crawled through Q’s window at midnight for a night of adventure, the night a month before graduation that really woke him up to life. The first was at age 9, when they discovered something horrible in the park that changed them forever. Their lives have really only intersected twice in a life-altering, meaningful way. They live next door to each other their bedroom windows face the other. Quentin (Q) and Margo Roth Speigelman have known each other their whole lives. Natrona County Library Serving Natrona County, Wyoming, we promote literacy, support discovery and creation, and build community.
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