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I also couldn’t help but feel my heart swell with every subtle nod to classic poets. Green uses his words wisely and with razor sharp wit. The imagery is glorious, very clear and not over descriptive. It simply portrays five real teenagers with real flaws without drowning you in all the hang ups and heavy emotions that hormones, family and high school throw at you.

Where this book succeeds where others have failed is it doesn’t try to be unnecessarily angsty which given some of it’s subject matter it really could have done. I would wake and think to myself, “No I best not start the day with this book, too much emotional investment too early in the morning.” I assure you it is absolutely worth the perseverance.ĭespite the almost constant foreboding fog that covers everything the characters discover, you find yourself willing your eyes to read on and hoping beyond all hope that their optimism pays off because anything else would be devastating. I was nervous to find out the fate of the characters, my stomach churning with turmoil. I actually found myself reading majority of this book in a constant state of anxiety. John Green’s writing is fast-paced, intelligent and raw. 'fascinating, cleverly constructed, and profoundly moving ' - School Library Journal, starred review

Readers will enjoy the edgy journey and off-road thinking' - Publishers Weekly do everything in your power to get a copy immediately ' - Teenbookreview It has razor-sharp wit, fantastic writing, originality in spades, truth. ' Paper Towns is a smart, thoughtful, funny, and hopeful novel that really epitomises John Green's brilliance. The race is on! After an epic drive through the night, they catch up with Margo, and Q learns first-hand that the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are. Q's friends Radar, Ben and Lacey help with the search, and a post turns up on a website: Margo will be in a certain location for the next 24 hours only. While her family shrugs off this latest disappearance, Q follows Margo's string of elaborate clues - including a poem about death. One night, Q is basking in the predictable boringness of his life when Margo, dressed as a ninja, persuades him to partake in several hours of mayhem. Now at high school, Q's nerdy while Margo is uber-cool. As children, they'd discovered a dead body together. Quentin Jacobsen - Q to his friends - is eighteen and has always loved the edgy Margo Roth Spiegelman. New York Times bestseller from the award-winning author of Looking for Alaska and The Fault In Our Stars. Now a major motion picture from Twentieth Century Fox