A review by rose_91
Paper Towns, by John Green
2.0
I think all of John Greens books are too similar. This was just like Looking for Alaska in the manner of characters: average teenage boy, not very popular, loves the amazing misterious girl, has some cool friends, does some pranks and then the girl leaves and the boy goes back to being average.
And the most annoying thing in these books: no real teenager has such deep thoughts, or talks like this.
I only read it because I like reading the books before the movies come out. Now I'm not sure if I want to watch it at all.
The beginning was funny, but then it became downright stupid and really unrealistic. A sane person would inform the police about all the thing Q and his friends found out. That would have been the logical step. Margo was simply selfish and crazy. And it was stupid of her to make her disappearance connected to the cheating of her boyfriend. Because the pranks she pulled with Q that night were understandable, but leaving her parents and the town and school was completely unrelated to it and made it look like she was going to kill herself over a boy. Which is idiotic and not even like her.
The end was just "meh". If she didn't want to be found she should have left no clues at all. No one found that first paper town place interesting, why did she think Q would? The only one thing she did right was calling her mother when Q found her. She was only playing the misunderstood teenagre the whole time.
All in all quite disappointing.
And the most annoying thing in these books: no real teenager has such deep thoughts, or talks like this.
I only read it because I like reading the books before the movies come out. Now I'm not sure if I want to watch it at all.
The beginning was funny, but then it became downright stupid and really unrealistic. A sane person would inform the police about all the thing Q and his friends found out. That would have been the logical step. Margo was simply selfish and crazy. And it was stupid of her to make her disappearance connected to the cheating of her boyfriend. Because the pranks she pulled with Q that night were understandable, but leaving her parents and the town and school was completely unrelated to it and made it look like she was going to kill herself over a boy. Which is idiotic and not even like her.
The end was just "meh". If she didn't want to be found she should have left no clues at all. No one found that first paper town place interesting, why did she think Q would? The only one thing she did right was calling her mother when Q found her. She was only playing the misunderstood teenagre the whole time.
All in all quite disappointing.