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thebookishlifeoflaura


3.5/5 stars

The Beginning
I like the beginning a lot! The adventure is fun and shows the characters of Q and Margo really well. It's interesting and fun and unexpected and I really like it!

The Middle
Can I just pretend the middle never happened? Honestly, the entire time I was reading the middle of this book, I wanted to scream. I think it's awful. It's so repetitive and boring and Q just needs to get the f*** over the girl, seriously. Ben is being an ass hat a lot of the time and even though it's annoying, it's ok because I like Ben a lot. And his best friend is being a girl-crazy weirdo obsessed with the idea he has of a person, instead the actual person.

The End
Oh my god. Oh. My. God. I can't even express how much I love the end! From the day of graduation all the way to that final kiss, just so in love! It's perfect! It really is! I literally laughed out loud quite frequently. Ben and Radar are the perfect characters. I just love them. Yes
Margo is a total bitch to everyone when they find her,
but afterwards everything is fantastic again!

So if I can just ignore the entire middle, from the day after the adventure to the day before graduation, I would give Paper Towns 5/5. But because the middle exists ((and I know it'ss obviously necessary for the book to continue, but it annoys and bores me to death)) I give it 3.5

4.5 stars

The second John Green book that I've read, and I'm still so completely in love with his writing style! The characters are great, I love the relationship between the two main characters, and their friendship with Isaac. The last time I cried this hard over a book was Clockwork Princess.

But to be honest, I was a little unsatisfied with the ending. I want to know what happens to Hazel? Will she and Isaac remain friends? How much longer will she live, and will her parents stay together after they die? What about Van Houton, what'll happen to him? I could go on, I have many ore questions

Even though I have a lot of questions, it was still a wonderful book and I'll definitely read it again!

Ok so the beginning (as in approximately the first 40 pages) I sort of liked; it was a little boring, not much happening, but then BAM!
Klea attacked and I thought "yay exciting!" Then they got to Avalon and "Yay more exciting battling!" But it went on. And on. And on and on and on. Probably over 200 pages of battling. The physical, blood-shedding battling got quite boring very quickly. But then during the battle against time I couldn't put the book down, and then the battle of rights against Queen Marion was awesome and had me grinning ear to ear to whole time.
And then the end, with what happened with the love triangle, I was so incredibly pleased with! It made to some-what boring in the middle a little better. And then came the letter. Any time that I got bored throughout the book, it was all made worth it just for that letter at the very end. It made everything very realistic, and I'm not ashamed to admit that I sobbed, both with sadness and joy. The ending was absolutely flawless!
This series is one that I would recommend to anyone with even the slightest taste for fantasy, and maybe even those who don't! It would be a good introduction to the world of YA fantasy, I think

Anyways, the perfect end to a wonderful series! Job well done, Pike!

Second time reading it
I loved it even more than the first time! The second time around, I noticed all the foreshadowing and everything. And even though I knew what was about to happen, all the major plot twists still came as a shock. Probably the only thing I didn't like is the amount of similes CC used. I'm all for stylistic devices, but that was a bit much at times.

I've been a huge fan of Dragon since I started the series so I was really happy when I found this book, and I definitely wasn't disappointed! Dragon and Anastasia were so cute in this! Ugh, I love them. The ending made me cry. And the plot twist that ties in with the original HoN series, definitely didn't see that one coming! Absolutely wonderful novella! I want to read the other novella's now and I can't wait to get caught up on the series!

Interesting concept and I loved the world Fisher created, but I found it to be a little boring and slow. I more or less enjoyed it while reading it, but I highly doubt I'll ever read it again.

I loooved it the first time I read it, but about a year later, when I read it again, I found it to be kind of boring