I Read // Paper Towns, John Green

When I was little I used to be a ridiculous bookworm. My mom would take me to the library every week and I'd pick up 6/7 books and they would all be read by the following week. Now with all the new distractions and technology, I don't tend to read much anymore and I pretty much grew out of my bookworm habits. I'm trying a lot harder to read more, especially at university when it's easy to lie around in bed all day.. while on my laptop (netflix, damn you!) So I'm finally utilizing my iPad to it's bookworm potential and I'm hoping to finish a book every week!



This week I finished John Green's Paper Towns. If you've seen 'The fault in our stars' which was released as a film earlier this year, it's written by the same author. I previously read 'the fault in our stars' before it was released as a film and I literally blubbed my eyes out.. same as his other books that I'd read beforehand.

Paper Towns is being released as a film pretty soon I think, I know they've just finished filming it, with Cara Delevingne as the main character, Margo. Personally, after finishing it I think she's the perfect casting for the role and is literally everything about the character. I really wanted to read it before the movie came out because I usually prefer the book to the movie, and if I read a book afterwards, I imagine the actors as the characters and it just.. no. It's so frustrating haha.

I wasn't really sure what to expect from 'Paper Towns' I didn't really know where the story was going when I started reading it, But basically..*

*LITTLE SPOILER/RANT
It's about a guy who goes on some huge long quest to find Margo, a seemingly troubled girl who quite frankly is a little nuts.. and drags this guy around to find her and you don't know what they are, are they friends.. are they just ugh. I guess it's sort of romantic..... sort of...

I actually really enjoyed it though.. it was funny in a chuckling kind of way and it's such an easy read, which is why I love John Green. If you're looking for a romance like 'The fault in our stars' it's not really much of one... It's quite a lot of chasing around and faffing about with clues and and what not, more of a puzzle than a smushy romance book.

However I love how clever the book is written and how all the clues all add up together and I did really love reading it. I wasn't impressed with the ending though. It kind of made me a little mad as its just meh.. Maybe the movie will tell a little more, but I finished the book feeling kind of aggravated that I didn't know what happened..

Would I read it again? Maybe, I don't know..
Will I see the movie? Definitely.

Have you read Paper towns?