Book 11. Paper Towns.

Title: Paper Towns
Author: John Green
Pages: 305
Date Started: Feb 4th, 2011
Date Finished: Feb 5th, 2011
Did you like it? I did like it. In fact, I liked it very much. I really love books with male protagonists because they are so rare, at least in teen fiction. Quentin was an amazingly fleshed out and believable character. His teenage problems became my teenage problems and I was drawn into the story to try to help him figure out who Margo really was. Alas, I could not do such. Margo, as a character bothered me a little. Through the book she was this idea of a person that Q held so tightly to and then when you meet her, she's this big whiny person. . . until she realizes that Q kind of relates/understands and then she chills. The ending though, I felt didn't really do the book justice, but because the rest of the book was ohmygod amazing, I give it a 5.5/6.

What's it about? 

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.

Quentin is a senior in high school, close to graduating. He's had this lifelong crush on this girl , Margo Roth Spiegelman. After a night helping her get her vengeance on a few of her "friends" she disappears. Everyone is used to these disappearances though, and she always always comes back with a story to tell. But this time, Q knows she's not coming back. The clues she leaves for him, in order for him to find her, help him to uncover a whole new world about who Margo really is. The clues show Q that almost the whole time he has known Margo, he's never really seen her for who she is, no one has. He becomes obsessed with finding her, with figuring out who she is and why she left.
The book is full of mystery and extremely well written, though I feel the ending was more of a cinematic experience than a novel one. I felt that closure was needed instead of the pretty words and touches. Maybe that's just me.