{Book Review}:PaperTowns

I just finished the book Paper Towns by John Green on Monday and wanted to review it before I forgot everything I wanted to say.

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You may have been seeing previews for this movie, which looked like it could be interesting when I saw them, and prompted me to read the book before the movie came out. It's also by the same author of The Fault in Our Stars which I liked, and it had 4 stars on Goodreads, so I was excited to try it out!

Boy was I disappointed. I'll explain, but first, the Goodreads synopsis:

"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... "

I can't tell you how annoyed I was reading this book. The characters in the book are really unbelievable, and the entire story-line is peppered with metaphors and analogies that are so over the top that it's frustrating. The book tries to be poetic, but it's just ridiculous.

There were two parts of the book that I enjoyed reading--the night time escapades with Margo, and a road trip that happens towards the end of the book. Those two things comprised about 10% of the book. So, I basically hated 90% of the book.

And the ending? It's awful. It's stupid. Margo is stupid, the main character is stupid...I was so happy to be done with the book. And then I was mad that I ever bought it in the first place. If I could return a Kindle book, I would return this one and get my money back.
I will not be watching the movie after reading this awful book, so at least I saved myself $10+ on a ticket.

If you liked this book, I hope my review doesn't offend you. I just didn't get it and was annoyed by the lack of realism to most of the story.

Can you tell how I really felt about the book?? :)

Check out some of the other books I've been reading lately on my Book Reviews page.