xo`Lent Life: the Towns were Paper but the memories were not.

When heard about the next release of the movie based on John Green's next book Paper Town, I hurried up to read the book that I already had and be ready for the movie. The Fault in Our Stars was very good and I had some expectations from this one either, but Paper Town was in some level lower both in the story line and in the message it reveals. The book is in John's style as usual - teen book with a proper message. But the message in this book is very tiny in comparison with the TFIOS.

The book is about a boy - Quentin (Q) Jacobsen and a girl - Margo Roth Spiegelman. Q is in love with Margo, but Margo is quiet a different person. Both of them had a situation in their childhood - they met a dead body. During this accident Margo in her little age acted like a detective and conducted an investigation about this death but found nothing. This incident left an impressive trace in Margo's life.

At the last year of senior school Margo decides to take a revenge from his boyfriend who had relations with another girl and asks Q to help her. Margo has several steps to follow during the night and their plan works.Q is having fun and is happy that they have shared some private things since the death scene in their childhood. But things go in another way.

On the next day of school Margo disappears and no one knows where she is. She is the person who is leaving home without notifying her parents or friends and each time she was leaving clue for the people to find her but they never paid attention to the clues and each time Margo had to return home by herself. But this time there is Q who is tracing her clues - poem lines, map tricks, paper towns, etc. He and his friends were the only people who worried about her. Q had a feeling that she also committed a suicide and lying dead somewhere.

The main problem described in this book is the children who suffer from the lack of attention of their parents. Margo by disappearing from her house wanted her parents' attention but they were too busy with themselves.

Paper Towns are the fictional towns created on the maps as copyright traps by mapmakers. Q finds Margo in Agloe, New York, a paper town or a phantom settlement that appeared in 1930s maps but did not exist. The settlement became actual landmark only in 1950.

Until finishing the book I did not watched even the trailer not to spoil my own imaginary figures. To be true, I could not believe my eyes when seeing Cara as Margo. Of course she is a good match but I have never imagined her as an ordinary girl due to her modelling.