Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will.
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Paper Towns definitely wasn’t what I expected but then again it surprised me in many ways, and it also made me think, so clearly this was a great journey.
The focus of this novel is a girl named Margo, and Q obsession with her. Ever since they were kids, she’s taken up residence in his thoughts and when they are teens and she brings him on her brilliantly planned night of revenge, he becomes hopelessly hooked on her. Margo is a mystery. She can get into anywhere, take anything she wants, and all the legends surrounding her turn out to be true. Before she goes missing she leaves clues for Quentin; following them ultimately changes his perspective on life in the last few weeks of his senior year.
I laughed out loud so many times. I also enjoyed the "depth" of the novel that emerges gradually behind the silliness. The lessons about teen love and growing up and wanting to escape. In Paper Towns, John Green takes caricatures and stereotypes and peels back the layers of them to reveal the people underneath. Which is, ultimately, the underlying theme of this book. It's amazingly well-written, and I enjoyed it. John Green is an amazing author, and he writes with a delicacy I admire and envy.
This book, was sweet and light and heartbreaking and true. Give it a shot.