Quentin (Q) Jacobsen had always thought that pretty, popular and mysterious Margo Roth Spiegelman was his miracle. I mean, of all the houses in all of the subdivisions in Florida, he ended up living right next to Margo (Roth Spiegelman).
So one day, some weeks before graduation, Margo decided to recruit Q in an eleven-stage prank. After that, they broke into Seaworld, had a moment and Q thought that he could have a chance with her.
Margo ran away the next day. It wasn't the first time...But she didn't come back. Q found out from her parents that Margo often left behind clues to her whereabouts, but the thing is, you can never follow them anywhere. Well, that's what they thought anyway.
Q, determined to find her and convinced that the clues she left behind were for him and him only, sets off to look for more clues that can lead him to her. Searching through abandoned strip-malls and driving for hours through various subdivisions.
I love this book and to quote John Green, “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.” (x)
And that basically sums up all of my feelings for this book.
It's insightful, witty, funny, relatable, fast-paced and it's just a really nice book.
And the characters, the characters, especially Margo. Like she didn't even show up in like 75% of the book (was only mentioned) but that didn't stop me from loving her.
Q had always had this weird obsession with her, making her seem bigger than she actually is, you'd think she's goddess but no.
It was so nice to see her through other people's eyes and when you really get to see her in person, you realize...There is a difference between the person that exists in your imagination and the person that stands before you.
And that is a really important message for a novel to have for its reader, and I applaud John Green for the way he incorporated the message into the novel.
This article is about Paper Towns. It's a review by Lennon Lane, and she talks about how hard it is to find a good young adult novel within many poor ones that can't hold the readers' attention since the plot, the ideas are so overused. But she said that Paper Town isn't one of those books and she gave us many reasons on why.
