Paper Towns, one of my favorites, depicts a young man whose attraction to an enigmatic (and recently vanished) young woman leads him to undertake a physical and psychological journey of self-discovery. His prose is clean, and his characters are often compelling. Green has justly made a name for himself with poignant tales of adolescents worrying over their place in the world. But after a nearly three-year hiatus, he has now offered us a new YA novel, Turtles All the Way Down - one that has frankly befuddled me, prompting me to question Green’s motivation for writing his books. FOLLOWING SEVERAL MAJOR SUCCESSES, including his 2012 novel The Fault in Our Stars and its 2014 film adaptation, as well as the 2015 adaptation of his 2008 novel Paper Towns, John Green seemed to be taking a bit of a break.
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