I appreciated that she loved mysteries and everything, but to me, a person who runs away from home often, and leaves clues behind for other people to figure out where she is, is ridiculous. For starters, Margo’s character kept on annoying me throughout the entire story. Now let’s get into what I didn’t like about the book. The title was great, except for the fact that if you happened to look up the title before reading it, it may give away some of Quentin’s findings later in the book, but since I didn’t do that, I had no problems with it. I also liked pretty much all of the characters that were in this book except for Margo (I will write more about this later). I liked the fact that the author kept the book moving along quite well and at a pretty good pace, so that it wasn’t super slow and boring. Now, here is what I liked about the book. After that night, Margo disappears, and Quentin believes that she has left clues for him to follow to find her, or even her dead body because he thinks that she just might have committed suicide. Margo is also going through a hard time during this part in the book because she doesn’t get along with her parents and she’s not very happy either. One night, Margo shows up at Quentin’s house, bent on getting revenge on a few people that she doesn’t like, and asks Quentin to come along with her. After this, the book skips to the last bit of their senior year in high school. Margo is determined to find out what happened to the dead man, while Quentin isn’t as interested. The novel starts with the quote above, and continues on to a flashback of young Quentin and Margo finding a corpse in a park. The novel is written from the point of view of Quentin and Margo is Quentin’s neighbour who was his friend when they were little, and even though they’ve grown apart, he still admires her now.
Paper Towns is a story about young people trying to find themselves, and the main characters are Quentin Jacobsen, Margo Roth Spiegelman, and Quentin’s friends, Ben and Radar. I had pretty high expectations for Paper Towns,(with all of the great reviews and other bestselling books from this author, like The Fault in Our Stars, which I ended up liking) before reading it, but now that I’ve read it, I can tell you that it did not surpass my expectations. My miracle was this: out of all the houses in all the subdivisions in all of Florida, I ended up living next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman.” I could have married the Queen of England or survived months at sea. But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us. Like, I will probably never be struck by lightning, or win a Nobel Prize, or become the dictator of a small nation in the Pacific Islands, or contract terminal ear cancer, or spontaneously combust. “The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.