Missing person or finally free

Paper Towns by John Green

Under the laws of probability, Q figures that, although no single miracle is likely to happen to any one of us, one of those many miracles is likely to happen to each of us. His miracle could have been the dead man he and his next door neighbor Margo Roth Spiegelman find in their park when they’re nine. No, Q’s comet is Margo herself.

Skip to Senior year: Margo is the sun around which their high school revolves. Q’s one of those revolving particles in the band crowd. About a month before graduation, Margo slips into his second-floor room in the middle of the night, a shadow in black face paint. She’s got a stellar carpe diem (make that noctem) planned for them of prankish escapades. Then she disappears, AGAIN, leaving behind complicated & elaborate clues that launch Q and his old friends, along with some new ones, onto an adventurous hunt to find Margo in between their proms, finals, parties, and graduation.

This is a stellar 3rd novel for Printz award winning, Young Adult author John Green. His characters are real, his plot is clever, exciting, insightful, and laugh-out-loud funny each in it's own turn. With fascinating tidbits of unexpected information and cleverly woven clues, Green offers a novel of adventure & fun with a gravity of realizations & personal growth. And don't forget to bask in the shining eloquence of Green's words, wit, and language which I've come to admire & adore in his work. Enjoy!

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Reviewed by K'Lyn