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whatjoread's Reviews (390)
Having only read the one John Green book before I didn’t really know what to expect from this book, the only other I’d read was The Fault in Our Stars which broke my heart. I was pretty sure this book wasn’t going to quite beat TFIOS but it did put up a pretty good fight. I instantly fell in love with the character of Margo Roth Spiegelman her free spirit and love to travel made her instantly interesting. I also found a lot of the subject matter very interested and spent a while after completing the book reading up on the mentioned paper towns. If i had to find in a fault in this book I would say I felt like the ending was very rushed. We seemed to have this huge build up as we find loads of clues and then a big mammoth journey (I did like the way that was structured!) but then BAM they find her and she doesn’t want to come home,cool: the end. I just kind of wish there had been a bit more to but that’s just me.
For such a short novel, if we can even call it that, this book was very enjoyable. Whilst reading it I was remind a lot of poor things by Alasdair Gray, a book I read for Advanced Higher English which was described as taking a lot of its origins from this book. As with any classic literature I did find it a little hard to read, as usual the use of language can sometimes be a challenge and this can make me loose interest quickly, but with the book being so short this happened less frequently. I did find that a lot of things were repeated and at first this seemed silly especially with the book being short but after finishing the book I was able to see that this repetition of events led us to see the entire picture and gave a deeper insight into characterisation. Overall I found this a great read and I can clearly see why this has gone down as a “classic.”
