Tuesday, March 17, 2009

2009 book 59

John Green's Paper Towns
I loved Green's last YA book, An Abundance of Katherines, so I was psyched to see he had a new one out. Unfortunately, it felt really formulaic--a nerdy kid loves the quirky girl next door, and they have a night of crazy adventures and then she disappears, blah blah prom blah blah road trips blah blah cliche cliche. It's some amalgamation of Katherines and Jay Asher's Thirteen Reasons Why, except with teenagers inventing annoying slang. C.

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