Summary: Who is the real Margo? Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs into his life—dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge—he follows. After their all-nighter ends, and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues—and they’re for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees the girl he thought he knew...
Review:
John Green is fantabulous. End of Story. He is not only quirky, intelligent, caring, and funny as a person, but these traits transfer over to his books. It’s so refreshing to read books about, to put it nicely, NERDS! I feel like many fiction books are centered on the “normal” average teenage kid. John’s are not. His characters are intelligent and witty and unbelievably real. Sure, your average senior boy may not read classic literature in his spare time, but they do glorify the ones they love. So much so that you don’t see the real person in front of you, just the goddess you have placed on a pedestal.
This is how Quentin Jacobsen sees Margo Roth Spiegelman (Never Margo Spiegelman, it’s always her full name that is said). This one in a million type of girl that he envisioned as perfect, graceful, funny, outgoing, and beautiful. The reality is that she is lonely young girl that feels trapped in her world with her parents and friends all stuck in their ‘paper town’. When I first started reading it, I thought I wasn’t going to be able to finish. Soon, though, I found myself thoroughly engrossed in the story, the characters, and the mystery.
The fact is that this book is something that all teenagers will relate to. It speaks to you with its hilarious characters (I wish Radar and Ben were my friends), the mystery, and the pull of sympathy towards a lonely teenager trying to find her place in this world and the boy who is obsessed with her.
Rating: 5/5 you need to go read John Green’s books. Now.
Reviews from the pros:
“Green’s prose is astounding...he nails it—exactly how a thing feels, looks, affects—page after page. Fascinating, cleverly constructed, and profoundly moving.” –school library journal, Starred review
“Green is not only clever and wonderfully witty but also deeply thoughtful and insightful. In addition, he’s a superb stylist, with a voice perfectly matched to his amusing, illuminating material.”-Booklist, starred review
“Green delivers once again with this satisfying, crowd-pleasing look at a complex, smart boy and the way he loves. Genuine—and genuinely funny—dialogue, a satisfyingly tangled but not unbelievable mystery and delightful secondary characters.”—kirkus reviews
Winner of an Edgar Award
