I read the book's back cover when I got home and it seemed interesting so I automatically began reading it right then and there. I had a lot of trouble putting the book down, but with my whole schedule being wacked out I had to constantly leave the book and attend to other matters. However, I did read it whenever I possibly could.
The book begins with a flashback to when Quentin Jacobsen and Margo Roth Spiegelman were 9 and they found a dead man in their subdivision. They do know exactly what happened but they knew he was dead. "Maybe all the strings inside of him broke?" The story then shoots to their present time, high school, Quentin and Margo are no longer friends. Margo is the popular girl and Quentin hangs out with the band geeks, but is not one himself. Quentin is madly in lust with Margo from afar. Late one night Margo sneaks to his room and asks for him to take his car keys and drive her around town. Quentin at first needs to know everything that is going to proceed through the night, but she resists and he gives in anyway. They proceed to sneak out and little by little she explains her plan. They are hitting all the people who have been wrong to her. Little by little they throw catfish in cars, spray paint M's on places, and leave little notes. They even go as far as shaving off an eyebrow as well as breaking into Sea World. When Quentin gets to school he hopes to see Margo, but her car is missing. She does not show up to school and that leaves him on edge. Her parents no longer want anything to do with her. Quentin however, notices something different. He realizes she's left him clues on how to find her. He then becomes obsessed with finding where she went. He even gets his friends as well as one of her friends in on it. And they search for her far and near.
But do they eventually find her? Read the book and find out!
I generally liked the plot that Mr. John Green created. Quentin transformed from cowardly to confident through the book. He was able to analyze that Margo was more than she appeared, and he grew from the experiences she'd left for him.
However, what I did not like about the book was the excess amount of cursing. I really think the book would've been better without it, but I stuck it out to read the rest of this pretty great book.
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