"Yeah," Radar says. "As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story." 
 First off, I want to say that this is only my second John Green book. I have only read The Fault in Our Stars and I have to say I wasn't the biggest fan of that book. (Emotional, yet I just felt like all the teens that were portrayed sounded more like 28 year olds rather than the teens they were.) 
 Moving on to Paper Towns. 
 Quentin Jacobsen has been in love with his next door neighbor, Margo Roth Spiegelman, since they were nine. 
 Unfortunately for Quentin, he has been loving Margo from afar as she is beyond his reach until one night she sneaks through his window to drag him out on an adventure that Q won't forget. After their all night campaign of breaking, and entering (but not at the same time), he has hope that things are different between them- that he might have a chance after all. 
 But Margo never shows back up to school. She just disappeared. But she does this often, and she often leaves clues for people to follow to find her. And this time, the clues are left specifically for Quentin. He deviates from his routine and normal life and searches for her, hoping he can find her before it's to late for them- or her. 
 Compared to TFIOS, Paper Tows features characters that have personalities that more closely match with their ages, respectively. However, there are still times that this book I felt that the characters just didn't act their age, they just seemed to mature to be believable. I understand, this book is fiction- but if it doesn't have magical realism, or it isn't fantasy, and is just contemporary fiction, I expect it to be believable. And there were times this book was just too quirky for me to believe in things that were happening. 
 A. The black Santa collection. I am confused. Is this a metaphor? A joke? Undecided. 
 B. Margo is 18. She seems incredibly intelligent, but then, childish. Quentin does point out that Margo is a mystery, and compares her to a mirror as everyone has a different view of her, everyone has their own version of Margo. Plus, she seems to be having a existential crisis, and that she has been since she was thirteen or so. And it just frustrates me. 
 "Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten good years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement. There was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for planning. No time for a future. But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future, and so they spent more time thinking about it. About the future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future- you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college." -Margo 
 See what I mean? She is smart, and there is so much understandable and relatable truth to this, but I just don't see this coming out of a 18 year old's mouth. 
 C. Not just her, but Ben, Radar and Quentin as well. One minute they are geniuses, and others they are immature, perverted boys, and I am just confused at that. 
 I admit, John Green is brilliant, and he is super quotable. I am loving the writing and his style but I just feel like he doesn't make teens that are true to their age. 
 Overall, I still enjoyed this story and I gave it 4 stars. I am still willing to read more John Green books, although I think from now on, I would rather borrow from the library than buy them. 
 "I'm not saying everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is."