Paper Towns by John Green

   With the movie coming out this Friday I figured it was about time I post a review for my absolute favorite John Green book! I loved The Fault in Our Stars and I'm getting into Looking for Alaska but Paper Towns is just so uniquely fantastic that it has to be my favorite. I read it about a year ago during finals week in college when I really needed something fun and fast to read, not horribly depressing and slow. I do not recommend taking 19 credits at a time. Even 18...though I got really bored when I only had 15...so do whatever works for you! What was I saying??? Oh, yeah! This was just what I needed! Below you can check out the book details and a review I wrote right after I finished reading. Sorry it is a bit shorter than my normal review. I blame 19 year old me ;)

Movie Release Date: July 24, 2015

Title: Paper Towns
Author: John Green
Page Count: 305
Rating: A
Keywords: Senior Year, Mystery, Crush, the one that got away, male POV
Genre: Contemporary YA
Younger Readers: some crude language but should be fine for younger readers

Synopsis from Goodreads:

Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs into his life—dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge—he follows. After their all-nighter ends, and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues—and they're for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees the girl he thought he knew...

Review:

    The great and wonderful Margo was probably my least favorite character in this entire book! She came across as shallow and toxic but this doesn't mean that I did not absolutely love this book. Once the story was just Radar, Ben, Lacey, and Quentin I was obsessed. There were sentimental moments but what I really enjoyed was the humor. Not many books make me laugh out loud, but this one certainly did. You will understand this if you have read it: black Santas and the road trip crash. These are two of my absolute favorite moments. Yes, I was angry at Margo for most of the book and still was not a huge fan of hers by the end but the mystery element she introduced was entertaining and kept the story moving and gave it greater depth than if it had simply been a funny book. An added bonus? This book had a good ending and wrapped up nicely. I hate when a book ends in a frustrating way.
   I recommend this to everyone! Check it out!