Paper Towns | Book Review

Title: Paper Towns
Series: Standalone
Author: John Green
Genre: Contemporary, Young Adult
Publication Date: October 16th 2008
Format: ebook

Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back 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 of the girl he thought he knew.

I feel like it's becoming a thing to read John Green's book just a few days after the trailer comes out. It happened with TFIOS and now PT. I think I like it that way since I'm in no hurry. We'll see Looking For Alaska next year, hopefully.

It was very difficult to think of a review and a rating for this book so I'll just divide it into the three parts the book consists of:

Part #1 

My second favorite part. I enjoyed the adventure that Margo and Quentin when on, even though Margo was the ultimate bitch. I found myself smiling a lot while reading their night.

which hysterically sounds like "like you" in the trailer

Part #2:

My least favorite part. This is the part where we lose dear, sweet Margo. And it's also where Quentin loses his shit. His obsessiveness over her was quite creepy and dumb to be completely honest. Even after reading this book I still don't understand his motives. I mean, does he honestly think he loves her? They never talked for fuck's sake.

Other than Quentin's annoying refusals to enjoy his last days in school with his friends this part was still enjoyable to read. The clues and the mystery part was very interesting and exciting to learn about. Also, for some reason, I really would like to read Whitman's poem now, like it really appeals to me after the bazillion times it got mentioned.

I loved Quentin's friends: Radar and Ben. They added so much to the story with their rich characters and I love the emphasis on how friends are different and sometimes they can be assholes, but you know what? they'er still friends.

The two parties in this part where the best scenes of the whole book in my opinion, I just love their innocence and how raw they were.

btw, this is probably my favorite gif of all time

Part #3

Ah, my favorite part. Except for the ending, that is. I feel like Margo gets mentioned the least in this part but mainly I loved the friendships that were formed because of her in this part. My favorite hours are probably #4 because that was intense, #7 because the car is just awesome, #16, #17, #18 because it's a joke that you'll get when you read the book. 

This part was a whole entire book on its own. I loved every word they said in it and honestly I felt so happy and giddy reading it. 

In the movie, I can already see a bunch of changes made to this part in particular and I'm so annoyed. God, I really am. But Nat Wolff is bae.

Overall, I still don't think contemporary is for me but I know for sure I really enjoy John's writing and usually I'm so bad at finding quotes that I like, but I actually found a couple on my own which I'm so proud of. So beside the ending and Margo and Quentin's obsession in Margo, I really enjoyed my time reading this book.

 Before I go, here are the quotes I found on my own:

Love Triangle? Mysterious Box? | Insurgent Movie Discussion

The anticipation is real. Insurgent is coming out in March 20 and if I don't talk about it with someone I'll probably explode so that's what I am doing today...

So before you go on reading all the points I want to talk about know that I'll spoil some parts of the book. So most likely you need to read Insurgent before you can actually read this. 

Also, I might be really feisty here, sorry.

Let's hustle.












1) Sticking to the book:

The controversy over the movie is mostly because of this point. Everyone thinks that the movie is very different than the book, therefore, the movie won't be as good. I have two debates for this:
 1- For me, the book being different from the book is a good thing. I wouldn't want to waste my money to see a movie I already memorized by heart in theaters, to be completely honest. And if you change nothing in the book you're honestly just being lazy. An Adaptation is not a the book coming to life rather than a movie based off of a book.
If they do this right, this could be great.
 2- The trailer is very deceiving. I noticed that they'er showing us all the things that are different from the book but I don't think they're straying from the book plot as much as they make it out to be.


2) The damn box:

This box became more famous than the movie itself. I think it's freaking cool. I think it's just a more interesting take on the disc(?) that held the video of ya know, Tris' ancestor or whatever. 
So I hope that we're over that shit, thank you.


3) Tris' fucking hair:


If I hear just one more thing about her hair I'm gonna cut a bitch. She cuts it in the damn book too and I don't care how you imagined it, this's what you get.
And honestly, I like this hair on Shailene much more. The long hair didn't seem right on her. It just seemed to drown her, it would've been better if it was layered but now it's gone so it's cool.

4) Naomi Watts as Evelyn


Okay, so at first when I saw the casting picture of Naomi I thought she was perfect. A little bit roughing up and she'd be the perfect Evelyn.

But, Let's be honest . This:









This is just stupid. She looks younger than fucking Tris. what the hell. 
And she gets the blue eyes? Not Four or Marcus but her? 
Wow, that's some confusing shit right there.


5) Ending Changes:

So if you've read Allegiant, you know what happens in the end. And if you haven't read it, you know something happens. (no spoilers)

Do I think they'll change the ending?
Right now, almost 80% sure they will. Just everything they'er doing and mostly because of the new character (we'll get to him). 

Am I sad they'll change it?
I'm really undecided on this. I won't be sad if they don't change it, but if they do change it which is most likely, I won't be upset either. 

6) New character and love triangle rumors:

It's not going to be a love triangle, just clarifying. I mean we'll get to the jealousy and relationship drama shit in Allegiant. 

So, when I saw this, just like everybody else I was like "who the fuck is Edgar?"

Now, the only information on this 'Edgar' is that he's a really bad guy with a little charm. So maybe he tries to get close to Tris or something (?)
Or like they just added a villain just because (?)
Who knows? I don't really think he'll be important in this movie particularly. But, I guess we'll see. 


7) Tris losing her damn shirt:

Ya'll are the most hilarious people in the world. Who fucking cares?? So she loses her shirt, that does not mean they sleep together. God, get over yourselves.
Although it'll be funny if it was like a simulation or a dream, that'd be the best thing they've done.


I guess that'll cover it for now. I leave you with a couple of things that I loved: