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** spoiler alert ** John Green has written another novel full of inexplicably intelligent and witty teenagers who don't do much of anything. The Fault In Our Stars was similar but really resonated with me on an emotional level because Gus and Hazel were more nuanced and believable than the characters in Paper Towns. I'm supposed to believe that an insecure teenage boy on the verge of making out with his dream girl can effortlessly whip out a ten minute monologue full of perfectly worded metaphors inspired by Walt Whitman?
I don't think so.

It often read as if Green was writing a term paper on Leaves of Grass instead of a novel with real characters. Even minor characters seemed to have dialogue for the sole purpose of delivering another brilliant thought that Green has had. The mirror conversation between Q's parents felt particularly random. The story could have been interesting but I was too distracted by what felt like John Green screaming, "HERE'S ANOTHER REALLY DEEP THOUGHT I'VE HAD ABOUT LIFE THAT I NEED WORK INTO THIS BOOK SOMEHOW!".

Now don't get me wrong-I myself was a grammar-obsessed nerd of a teenager and I think that we discount the intelligence and perceptiveness of that age group all too often. But when that's all that these characters are, when they don't have relatable traits or motivations, it becomes unbelievable to a fault.