John Green's romantic adventure novel "Paper Towns" is an adventure to nowhere. This fictional novel has been adapted to movie version by the same name and stars Cara Delevingne and Nat Wolff.
The cover page is really attractive with a red tack pinned on a map. The whole idea of the book is depicted on the cover page. Truth be told, the book's cover page made me read this novel.
"Paper Towns" is about a boy named Quentin "Q" Jacobsen and his search for Margo Roth Spiegelman; who goes missing after an adventurous night of revenge. Following some unintentional clues, Q and his friends manage to find Margo in a paper town. Slowly, Q realises that Margo is nothing like he imagined.
Q is a likeable teenager who tries to satisfy everyone's needs while Margo is independent, self sufficient and adamant in her own way. Q's friend Radar is an interesting one. I really liked him and his family's Black Santa tradition. Radar is the powerhouse of knowledge with his online Wikipedia called Omnictionary. I was not at all impressed by Margo's attitudes. She was like a stump;
standing only to attract a feeble and innocent boy like Q and dragging
him to an utter mess of an impractical adventure.
I personally felt that the book had a strong plot and it was well constructed till the end. The theme being that 'the image we create for someone is never that person'; is really an intense one. It could have had a better and deeper impact if it was developed a bit more well. The ending was wobbly and quite impractical. I mean how can a high school girl live alone in a big city without neither a job nor a house? If these are plotholes then there sure are lots of them. Their final amicable departure was nice but I felt like I was missing something. I'm not saying that the book was a complete mess; it was fun to read and join clues which were never meant to be clues at all. After reading John Green's 'The Fault in Our Stars", I expected a bit out of this one (because of its great cover and all) but I am disappointed. The only part I loved in this book was Q's ride with his friends to reach Agloe. The hour division of that chapter till they reached Agloe had a young vibrancy and joy. Overall, it was not great but not completely hopeless either.
I personally felt that the book had a strong plot and it was well constructed till the end. The theme being that 'the image we create for someone is never that person'; is really an intense one. It could have had a better and deeper impact if it was developed a bit more well. The ending was wobbly and quite impractical. I mean how can a high school girl live alone in a big city without neither a job nor a house? If these are plotholes then there sure are lots of them. Their final amicable departure was nice but I felt like I was missing something. I'm not saying that the book was a complete mess; it was fun to read and join clues which were never meant to be clues at all. After reading John Green's 'The Fault in Our Stars", I expected a bit out of this one (because of its great cover and all) but I am disappointed. The only part I loved in this book was Q's ride with his friends to reach Agloe. The hour division of that chapter till they reached Agloe had a young vibrancy and joy. Overall, it was not great but not completely hopeless either.
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