Q talks like it, Margo does, their friends do, Q's parents and not to mention the police officer who loves balloon metaphors. And not every single person you come into contact with will. It's ridiculous how every single character is always spewing these deep, meaningful, thought-provoking, quotable sentences. When all the characters are speaking in deep and meaningful metaphors, it starts to feel like nothing they are saying is actually deep and meaningful.
It's hard for them to feel real when they all sound like motivational posters. This doesn't, it feels like the life is taken out of them more and more as the book goes on. Yes, I know this is a work of fiction, but the author should bring his world and characters to life. My other reason that I struggled so much with this book is the fact I just couldn't seem to connect to the characters or the story. Q is actually obsessed with her and in all honesty. The story IS Margo Roth Spiegelman, which I wouldn't mind if I found her to be an interesting and likeable character.
She leaves little clues behind that Q follows in order to track her down.
They spend one crazy night together, and the next day Margo disappears. The story follows Q, a boy who is in love with Margo Roth Spiegelman and has been since they were children. I didn't find that to be the case with Paper Towns, in fact, I ended up enjoying it less than The Fault in Our Stars. I hear so much praise and love for John Green, so I really wanted to try more from him to see if those books blew me away and impressed me as much as they seemed to impress everyone else. I read The Fault in Our Stars and I really enjoyed that one, although it wasn't an amazing 5/5 read for me. This is my second John Green book and I wish I could say that I absolutely loved it. Always an enigma, she now becomes a mystery and Q soon learns that there are clues to be following in his search for Margo. After their all-nighter ends and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to find that Margo has not.
So when she opens his bedroom window late one night and summons him to join her on an ingenious campaign of revenge - he follows. Who is the real Margo? Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificent, adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar.
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