Wednesday 18 March 2015

Paper Towns,

Paper Towns, by John Green

Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back 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 of the girl he thought he knew.

This book was brilliant! So many of my friends told me how they didn't like this books, they thought the beginning and the end were okay but that the middle was completely boring. I disagree completely, I genuinely loved the middle bit. Q has a poem left to him by Margo, and he's got to find clues in the poem in order to find Margo, and since poetry is the only thing I'm particularly good at in school I loved it! I was constantly trying to look into the poem and find the clues before they found them in the book, I have an unhealthy competitive streak in me that prevents me from being able to just wait and find out what happens, I have to try and beat the book XD.

This book is funny, filled with mystery and adventure yet also the boring reality of life. Oh and of course there's a little bit of love ;) I actually managed to pick up a few facts from this book too which is always a bonus. I would certainly recommend this book if you haven't already, the odds are that some of you will find this book a little bit boring at times, but maybe if you have a go and try to appreciate the poetry and the genius clues left by Margo then you'll find it as interesting as I did.