Paper Towns

“The town was paper, but the memories were not.”

Author: John Green

Rating: 3.2/5

Started on: March 05, 2016

Finished on: March 09, 2016

Edition: paperback (Speak)

Genre: Young Adult, Adventure

Synopsis:

Who is the real Margo?

Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs into his life—dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge—he follows. After their all-nighter ends, and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues—and they’re for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees the girl he thought he knew…

“It is so hard to leave – until you leave. An then it is the easiest goddammed thing in the world.”

 

Ahh Paper Towns – a book by John Green that was published 2 years earlier that the heart-wrecking The Fault In Our Stars. Being one of the people who has read TFIOS before Paper Towns, I expected this novel to break my heart ruthlessly and would leave me in a puddle of tears. Apparently, that wasn’t the goal of this novella – it’s far from its goal, in my opinion. Nevertheless, I still liked Quentin and Margo, and the Paper Town.

[Friendly note: this review is a little SPOILER-ish. For those who still hasn’t read Paper Towns and wants to read it naively, read at your own risk…or just don’t read this part]

Paper Towns is about a guy named Quentin Jacobsen who loved his childhood sweetheart, Margo Roth Spiegelman since they were kids, and was never given a chance to tell it to her because of certain circumstances – and because, like most friendship that started at an early age, they grew apart. Q sees her everyday at school, hanging out with her friends and her boyfriend, Jason Worthington. And although it always breaks his heart to see her happy around a guy that’s not him, Quentin couldn’t resist his self because that’s the only time that he would see her, well except when he remembers the “tree incident” when they were still playmates. One weekday night, however, she came in his room through the window and forced Q to go with her, letting him experience the best night of his life with the love of his life. On the next day, however, Margo Roth Spiegelman was nowhere to be found.

 

Quentin and her best friend, Lacey Pemberton, was eager to find out where Margo went this time. Only in this adventure of hers, the footprints that she left was vague and, in a way, irrelevant. But with the help of Radar and Ben, they unravel the clues piece by piece until they were a road trip away from finding her.

 

The only question haunting Quentin’s mind is, is Margo Roth Spiegelman really there? Is she still alive or was this a mission to find a dead person like the way they found the dead man under the tree?

Unlike The Fault In Our Stars, this novella is made with pure contrast. This is because I loved the beginning and middle part so much since it was pure mystery and thrill and will really make you cringe on the edge of your seat. However, when the last part came in the picture, every love I’ve build up with the characters and the story was ruined. (poof!) Cliché was an understatement with describing how Paper Towns ended. It really disappointed me to the point where I’m scared of reading another JG novel.

Yep, I guess this is the consequence of falling in love with TFIOS intensely.

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P.S.:

If you see someone having the same pattern as I have (details of the book, my thoughts about the book, book summary, why not five stars?) PLEASE keep in mind that I was the one who first made up this pattern (well some details of the book was inspired by bibliophilemish). As some of you have known, a blogger has copied this certain pattern of mine without giving credits or notifying me that SHE would use it. And this really makes me sad because I somehow considered her as a friend ☹️ *sigh* and I really do my best to make my blog unique…but of course she HAS to destroy that dream of mine. Ugh why do people do this? Get the idea of other people and have all the credits..how do you sleep at night? 😭

Evil part of my brain: like a baby! mwahahahaha! 😖

 

Anyway, HAVE A GREAT DAY PEOPLE! ❤️‍ Do NOT plagiarize. You’re gonna make every puppy and kitten upset.

 

– Nicolynne 👓