Jacket Copy: Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back 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.
A Few Thoughts: When I first started reading this, I was annoyed by the fact that it seemed to be so much like Looking for Alaska. By the end, though, I saw that it wasnt just a copy of his previous books. As in his other novels, John Green really hits you over the head with the message he's trying to say, blatantly spelling it out rather than leaving it to the reader to infer exactly what they are supposed to take away from the story. He makes it work, though. In other writer's books it might be annoying, but for him, its a large part of the appeal of his writing style. There's a lot to be said for being heavy-handed with your message instead of going to the opposite end of the spectrum and obscuring your message so much that its like homework for the reader trying to make any sense of what looks like random gibberish.
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