Paper Towns review

The book, Paper Towns, by John Green, is definitely a book to read.  Author of The Fault in Our Stars and Looking for Alaska, John Green is a popular young-adult writer as well as an active Youtuber of the channel vlogbrothers. Most of his works deal with issues of adolescence, peppered with unique but realistic characters.

The plot of Paper Towns revolves around a young boy and his quirky childhood friend. When they were younger, the narrator, Quentin “Q” Jacobsen, and his neighbor Margo Roth Spiegelman, go to the park and discover the corpse of Robert Joyner, a divorced man who has committed suicide.  As soon as Q and Margo become very close friends, the story suddenly shifts to where”Q” and Margo have grown apart and are now in high school. Randomly in the middle of the night, Margo shows up at Quentin’s bedroom window dressed like a ninja, with black face paint and black clothes. She convinces him to sneak out and help her get revenge on people she feels have hurt her.  Together, Q and Margo become a team.  Margo says the reason she calls their town a ‘paper town’ because everything is fake; their town seems almost paper written, everything is to in order and two mechanical.  Consequently, John Green has taken these two characters and put them through a journey that maybe both of them needed. Follow Q and Margo on there adventures in this stunning book Paper Towns, by John Green.