So I've heard about this for some time, but wasn't overly eager to get my hands on another John Green book, due to too much hype, and not because I didn't like The Fault in Our Stars, because I did. Lots of my friends liked this, and I did too. 
 I tried reading Looking for Alaska, didn't get very far and then decided to give Paper Towns a try. The synopsis seemed rather boring and uninteresting, which was a bit of a turn-off. But after a few chapters, I was drawn in. One of my favourite bits was when Q and Margo go off on that one night to play pranks on their classmates. 
 Almost the rest of the time, Q is just looking for Margo and trying to find and decipher clues that Margo 'left' for him. This part didn't exactly drag but wasn't super fun to read. It was necessary to the story though, it gave it a sort of build-up to the final scene and by then I just really wanted to know what happened at the end. Also, Q learns a lot about himself, Margo and life in general through that whole process. 
 When Quentin finally finds Margo, there's this whole deluge of explanations. While this benefited the reader wholly, and didn't leave me confused or feeling that it was a bit vague, I wondered whether this could have been done differently, instead of Margo just telling Quentin everything. However, I really liked the ending, it's probably the best ending after the whole story. 
 The characters are interesting, plot somewhat satisfying but the pacing rather slow. While the story wasn't exactly what I was expecting, I really liked how cleverly written and thought out this was, allowing me to give this 4 stars instead of something like 3.5.