Paper Towns by John Green

Though listed as a young adult novel, Paper Towns is a great life lesson about how all that glitters is not gold. John Green takes us on a life-altering journey of a teen who is in pursuit of his childhood love interest when she goes missing.

As Quentin Jacobsen goes on a search for Margo Roth Spiegelman, he learns that appearances can be deceiving and people can be physically present but mentally absent if they like. After a long, agonizing hunt Quentin realizes that not everyone who is lost wants to be found, while Margo shows us how it’s okay to be selfish sometimes and that you can still care about people in your own little way.

The mystery in Paper Towns is clever with tons of quirk and just the right touch of drama. It does get a bit slow in the middle, but you can’t put it away without reading it through.

This book teaches us a great many things like how we should look deeper and beyond what meets the eye, tells us to break free and follow our hearts wherever they may take us. What’s more, with a very real and relatable storyline, Paper Towns keeps you hooked till the very end.

If you don’t care much about happy endings, John Green’s Paper Towns is the book for you!

We’re also looking forward to read:

• Whisper To Me by Nick Lake – The story of a girl’s struggle with life combined with a murderer on the loose, who doesn’t love a teenage thriller novel?
• Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld – A retelling of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and other stories by Jane Austen, we can’t wait to read this one.
• When I Was Invisible by Dorothy Koomson – A ride in time of 2 childhood buddies, this one is sure as hell going to be a rollercoaster of emotions.