Quinten’s best friend is pretty much obsessed with girls, whom he refers to as Honey Bunnies.

Readers may enjoy this one more by reading it before devouring TFIOS. The Fault in Our Stars in particular is a tough act to beat. While this was a fascinating story, it’s hard to compare it to Green’s other novels. It was fun reading something set in places so familiar. The transformation of Quinten’s view of Margo is a bit predictable, though it’s deepened by the exploration of “Leaves of Grass” by Walt Whitman and the story’s metaphor centered around “paper towns,” a reference first made by Margo herself.Īs a native Central-Floridian, many moments in the story’s setting really resonated, calling to mind specific memories of drives down Florida’s roads and highways. Radar’s parents’ odd collection provides that quirky humor classic to Green’s novels, though Ben’s constant trilling about girls becomes repetitive and obnoxious. Quinten and his pals Ben and Radar team up to unlock the mystery of Margo’s disappearance. Through the Whitman poem she leaves behind and the abandoned hideaway Quinten discovers, he learns about seeing past the faux exterior to knowing someone as they are and the importance of building a genuine interconnected community. As he searches for clues, he realizes there’s much more to Margo than the queen bee people perceive her to be.

When Margo disappears the following morning, Quinten believes she left clues to her whereabouts behind, hoping he will find her. Popular and notorious Margo Roth Spiegelman shocks Quinten out of his low-key, rule-abiding existence when she drags him along with her on a night of pranks and misadventures. Published OctoAmazon | Barnes & Noble | Goodreads

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