author: john green
star rating: 5/5
From the back cover:
Who is the real Margo?
Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Speigelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs into his life - dressed like a ninja 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....
first Sentence: The longest day of my life began tardily.
Paper towns, where do i begin to speak of your utter magnificent beauty. First of all, i think it's a thrilling, captivating read. Margo, this unbelievable, surreal, greater than the average human being, this girl who's larger than life, is revealed through Quentin's eyes. Ben, the ever enthusiastic, and Radar, the technology guy, embark on the trip of a lifetime with Q and Ben's girlfriend, Lacey, in search of Margo Roth Spiegelman. Q realizes just who Margo really is and he realizes who he is too.
I don't know where to begin in professing my love and adoration for this novel. I think everyone wants to be Margo Roth Spiegelman. Maybe she doesn't have the life you'd always imagined but she's on the verge of adventure everywhere and she's so astonishingly relatable to me that I don't know how I can express it.
As for characters, they exceeded even the highest of expectations.
Q doesn't question so much about Margo's last daring escapade. He's so willing to live in her shadow for at least one night and that night changes his life forever.
Ben and Radar are two of the best friends Q could have. Sometimes he feels like they don't care but they're quick to come to the rescue when he needs help.
There is so much honesty in this book. There is so much hope and longing and missing and problem solving and I am going to somewhat reluctantly admit that I don't want to share this book. I want to keep it mine forever and selfishly and be narcissistic and feel that this is a book that I can have to live in Margo's shoes. To live like Margo Roth Spiegelman. To dream of Paper Towns and escaping forever.
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