PopSugar Book Challenge Book 22 or Why I'm Too Old for Some of This

For 'takes place in high school,' I knew there was only one place I was going to turn. John Green is an amazing writer. He could probably make the calorie information on a cereal box into compelling prose if he was so motivated. With Paper Towns due to be released very soon, I wanted to read the book before the move colored my idea of the book.

WARNING: Spoilers ahead.

Once again, John Green manages to create something that is absolutely wonderful. It's more than the story of a mysterious girl but of growing up and realizing there is more than one version of a person that exists. Q was a great narrator and I'm glad I got to see the story from his eyes. He was a little too obsessed with Margo for it to be totally healthy but I was able to enjoy the way he saw the world.

I couldn't like Margo. As a character in a novel, she's interesting, especially told through Q's eyes. In reality, she would be a melodramatic, self-centered pain in the ass who would care very little about the lives of those around her. I say this from experience.

She was bored with her life and need attention from her self-involved parents so she routinely went away leaving vague clues that weren't meant to be solved. She recruits Q before her latest disappearance and leaves some half-assed clues he wasn't meant to solve. When he does manage to solve them and they do find Miss Mystery, she ignores then before being a whiny little brat about it. She even admits to Q that she would have stolen his car had he not agreed to go along. Q wasn't a whole person to her just as she wasn't him. He was just an extra in the movie that was Margo.

The ending was absolutely perfect for both characters but even John Green wasn't capable of making me like Margo.