Paper Towns: A flimsy tale

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Who is the real Margo?

OVERVIEW:

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…

REVIEW:

I didn’t think disappointment could be an emotion I would feel after reading a book of John Green but I was wrong. He built Paper Towns up and tapped it with his finger. There was no tornado to upright it. The weatherman called for shelter and gave warning but it only led to an anticlimactic event, one that left me asking, “That’s it?” It was hilarious and poignant and sometimes outrageous, until the last segment of the book. The mystery was captivating and the characters were hypnotizing, but the ending simply evaporated. I was enthralled and couldn’t wait for the climax; until it happened, then I had to force myself to stay awake and continue reading. Will power kept me going; not the writing, the story, or the characters. I love a book that lives on past the last page and, tragically, this book ended before it was over.

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About Jo Taylor

Sarcasm is my middle name, Poetry & I fell in love sometime back in middle school, & my books are some of my best friends. Writing is an old lost form of intimacy & reading is a relationship. My eyes were never the window to my soul; I promise you these words I write are worth way more. Joy Taylor is just my pen name. Joy is my real middle (irony isn't lost on anyone there) and Taylor is a homage to my disabled brother. Instagram: @tiff.joy, where I occasionally post some poetry amidst the craziness that is my life.

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