Originally published in 2008.

I bought the book at a yard sale and boy did I get hooked, I absolutely loved the book and trying to uncover the mystery of where Margo could've gone. I'm low key upset with the ending because I would've liked if he has gone with her but you don't always get what you want. An amazing book truly. ( )

I personally love John Green as a writer because of his wit, and this book was no different. It was not my favourite John Green book to date, but it gives you a run for your money as you try to figure out where this beautiful girl hid. The title has quite a bit of significance, just like all of John Green's other titles. I wasn't as addicted to it as I expected to be, but it was an amusing read as I tried to decode the mystery. Four stars. ( )

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I'll skip the synopsis, as the book has been out since the mid 2000s and had a movie adaption. I'm pretty sure everyone knows what it's about, even if they haven't read or watched. My 2 oldest daughters have done both. I instructed them not to tell me anything....but, I was warned that it blows.

I don't think I've ever read a more unlikable, self centered and obnoxious character......and that's saying something, because I've read alot of books, with a lot of bad characters. Margo is flipping horrible! The worst part is.....I kept waiting for someone, anyone, to put her in her place, but instead everyone just acts like she's wonderful and spends their days catering to her little game.

Quentin....Q....isn't much better.....he's ridiculously smitten with Margo and expects everyone to spent their lives looking for her.

Her parents, who are tired of her crap, are portrayed as as*holes.....I guess I'm an as*hole, because I agree with them.

The only truly likable character is Radar....Qs friend. Their other friend, Ben, is funny, but juvenile and annoying. Lacey, Margo friend,, is ok.....but very one dimensional.....I felt like her character was only created to serve a purpose for Margo.

The story itself is tragically rambling......about 60% through, I had to force myself to keep going....the only thing that kept me reading was the hope that Margo would get what was coming to her. After she pulls her disappear act, the majority of the book is Q reading poetry and thinking about Margo.....trying to decipher Margo.....expecting others to obsess over Margo. The few interesting parts are when his friends force him into other activities.

The final infuriating act......Q, Radar, Ben and Lacey, all SKIP graduation....SKIP their graduation! To go on a 19 hr road trip to find Margo. Its sooo ridiculous!!

The whole story is dramatic and unbelievable....even Greens great writing skills couldn't save this one. I MUCH prefer Looking for Alaska, and recommend that title. ( )

Paper Towns, it’s definitely not a tearjerker, but still a sentimental and semi-relatable novel, it really hooked me until the very end, and may even be one of my favorites.

The quotes said in this book are very heart-touching and deep and “most” of the characters are very likable, my personal favorite was Margo, she’s the antagonist of this novel but she’s honestly adorable and you learn so much about her throughout the book, because finding Margo is the central conflict, but the problem with finding her is that the clues she left behind were very vague and not easy to follow, which relates to the characters because Quentin, the protagonist, is in love with her, and all of his friends, including his two best friends, Radar and Ben, are fond of Margo, which makes the plot and hook 10x better in my opinion.

I’d say the one-word topic for this novel is Friendships and the theme is ‘leaving home and growing up’, because in the book they mention how Margo leaves her home more than once for multiple days every few months, and during the book, she leaves her home in Orlando to become someone who she can see.

The book begins with 9-year-old Quentin and Margo finding a dead body at a park, gory, I know, but because of this finding, Quentin fell in love with her, but then they shortly split up and stopped talking and Margo got popular while Quentin wasn’t. It wasn’t until 9 years later, when Margo went to Quentin's window to prepare a revenge plan, that the pair finally began talking to each other again. As they go on a trip throughout Orlando, which is the setting of the novel, tagging each of Margo’s “plastic” friends, Quentin falls more in love with her and has thoughts of him being with her and her friends, and near the end of their trip they go to a watch tower and Margo says one of my favorite quotes, which also correlates with the plot and the name, “Here's what's not beautiful about it: from here, you can't see the rust or the cracked paint or whatever, but you can tell what the place really is. You can see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town.” what I like about this quote is that it helps Q and his friends find clues about Margo’s runaway because they find that the definition of Paper Town is “phantom settlement”; speaking of clues, I’d consider this book a mystery solving book as they go on adventures to find clues of where Margo’s whereabouts are and they investigate the clues very deeply.

I think the best part of this book, personally, is that you feel as if you’re friends with the characters, tagging along with them, on a crazy adventure. You even feel as if you can see what they see too with how specific the imagery is. Even though I liked that aspect of the book, there were a few downs of it too, personally, the worst part is the ending, it ends off on a very disappointing note where the reader expects something to happen, but it doesn’t, and it leaves you wanting a follow-up and makes you wish you were there in the novel, although I disliked the ending, it was still a good book and I recommend Paper Towns because it’s very engaging and has a lot of conflicts, the characters are very lovable, and you can see yourself in Orlando throughout the book. You really learn a lot of things too, like how Nair can take off eyebrows haha, however, there’s mature language in this novel, and there are also lots of sexual talk, so I would only recommend this novel to people who feel comfortable with that language and scenes, or people above the age of 13. ( )