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Review: Paper Towns

Author - John Green
Genre - Young-Adult
No. of Pages - 305
Year of Publication - 2008
Rating - ❤️❤️

Paper Towns are basically, copyright traps which are shown on maps but don't exist actually. I really wanted to like this book after reading The Fault In Our Stars but I couldn't. I kept on reading it till the end with a flickering hope that I would find some twist or just something interesting, which I couldn't figure out. No twists, no turns. Just a straight story.

In his pre-adolescence years, the protagonist Quentin "Q" Jacobsen with his friend and neighbor Margo Roth Speigelman, discovers a corpse of some local man who had committed suicide. Fast forward nine years, both of them are nearing their high school graduation but have lost all contacts and then suddenly, one night Margo appears at Quentin's window.

Margo has a plan. She wants to take revenge from the people who have used her or been untruthful or bitchy about her. She has the whole plan laid out but requires a car and an accomplice to carry it forward. Quentin agrees to accompany her. 


They get back from their mission around dawn. For Q, things have changed. He thinks now Margo will hangout with him and his friends but what later happens is what he must have resented the most. Margo goes missing and leaves behind clues like her highlighted copy of Song of Myself by Walt Whitman, and an address note stuck in Quentin's doorjamb.
Quentin tries his best to find out Margo and succeeds in the end. 

I was too confused after reading this book. The ending was quite empty and soulless, I couldn't even acquire an opinion about it for a while. 

I won't spoil the ending for the readers but the irony is, there is nothing to be spoiled about it. I didn't like the ending at all. Even after 305 pages of torture to find something interesting in this book, I would have praised it even for a good ending but it didn't happen. 

I like John Green a lot and I really wanted to like this book too but it was in vain. I would recommend it to the readers who want to read a not-so-tricky book with a plain ending. And if you like John Green, all his books are worth experimenting.

Review by Bhumika Singh (Blog Author)

Other books by John Green:
The Fault In Our Stars
Let It Snow


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