"Paper towns" by John Green. This book is published by Bloomsbury publishing in 2014 and has 320 pages. It's a young adult novel. Film adaptation of this book will be released soon.
Quentin Jacobsen 'Q' spends a crazy night with his childhood one sided love, Margo Roth Spiegelman, driving around the town and playing mischief with the enemies. Next day she disappears leaving behind cryptic clues for Q. He & his friends Ben and Radar are on the trail.
Where is Margo? Is this her first disappearance? Why did she disappear? Why did she leave clues? Why did she chose Q? What are paper towns?
This is a book written for young adults, starring young adults. Obviously it contains areas of interest for teenagers and has teen age craziness like breaking into someone's house, wearing nothing under the graduation robe, exploring abandoned buildings, love, lust, hate etc.
Q is a typical shy, non punctual, intelligent boy who loves his childhood sweetheart without ever telling her. Margo is an enigmatic personality. Everything she does is WOW. She is the ultimate of everything. Ben is a typical joker and Radar is the nerd. Characterization is good.
Author has used puns liberally to create humor. This makes book more readable. Paper town refers to pseudo vision in particular and falseness in general. Credit also to author for avoiding the temptation of a happy ending but rather ending the novel realistically and with hope.
John has written a book that will keep young readers interested and not so young readers entertained.
If you are a teenager, read it.
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