Paper Towns - Sunyyah

Paper Towns, by far, is a wonderful book. I found it very amusing (suggesting that for me, personally, I am an extreme fan of mystery and adventure, which has been included both into the context), and I personally find most of John Green's work genius. Paper Towns is a romantic novel (which executes part of the idea, to me, to find what your heart wants, and also the saying "don't judge a book by its cover") about a boy named Quentin who, as a kid, had a neighbor who moved next door to his house named Margo Roth Spiegelman, a girl who challenges the unknown and is a fanatic for adventure, who Q adores. As they were young, they spent many days together. As they got older, though, they evolved from friends to acquaintances. One school night though, while Q was asleep, Margo slipped open his bedroom window, suited as a ninja, asking Q to help her implement a well thought-out and clever quest for revenge, which Q ended up agreeing to. After the revengeful night ends, Q suspects that the next day during school that things will be different between Margo and him. Suddenly, as the following day of school arrives, Margo disappeared, and with her disappearance she leaves clues of where she possibly is -- just for Q. So Q and his friends, Radar, Ben, and later on, Lacey, go on a frantic quest to discover where Margo has hid. Yet the closer Q gets to unraveling the mystery, the more Q begins to realize that there's another hidden side to Margo that leaves Q questioning who she really is.

This book is relatively similar to John Green's other best-selling book, Looking For Alaska, which has the similar connection to mystery and adventure, with a boy who's deeply enamored with a girl who loves adventure and plots revenge on some schoolmates. Although in Looking For Alaska, the girl later ends up killing herself in a car crash. Both Paper Towns and Looking For Alaska support the idea of a boy and his friend deciding to figure out the backstory behind the girl's mystery. As you can compare, they both have multiple similarities. The two books also have very detailed resemblances, such as metaphors highlighted in books that explain fragments of their mystery. The only big difference is that Looking For Alaska has a lot more explicit content. Although I love Paper Towns a lot, it is not placed highly on the top of my list of book recommendations if the reader has already read Looking For Alaska. It sort of leaves me with a bit of a resent to the two books also, because not only do they share very similar factors, but it also is written by the same author, so by reading the two books it leaves me uninterested because they are practically the same book. Except in the lives of different characters and with different titles. Though I would at least recommend Paper Towns to a reader who is very engaged in mystery and adventure, with the interest of metaphors too.