Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Rating: 2 Stars
How I Got It: Purchased
I want to say that I like John Green as a person, but his
books do not work for me. I don’t like to write highly negative reviews, so
I’ll try to keep it short.
The thing I liked was Radar. He’s an interesting,
likeable character. The rest of the characters don’t deserve his friendship.
All the other characters are selfish, flat, and
unlikeable. In theory, I get that this could be about Q finding himself, but it
doesn’t work. Q is a pretentious and ungrateful ass. And he doesn’t seem to
ever feel bad for how he treats his “friends”. I don’t even want to get into
Margo and her manic pixie dreamgirlness. And the literary references are way
too heavy-handed.
Reading this book makes me even more upset than I
normally am upon hearing that John Green saved YA. If anything he’s writing
self-indulgent books that cheapen and simplify woman. Now that I think about
it, I never hear about his decided lack of well-rounded female characters. But
maybe stuff like that only matters if an author is female and writes romance
because they seem to get shit all the time.
Again, I want to be clear: I like John Green and don’t
think he hates women or anything like that, but his books definitely leave
something to be desired.
Thanks for reading!
~Holly
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