Challenger Deep (4/5)

Challenger Deep
Neal Shusterman


                 Challenger Deep tells the story of Caden Bosch, a boy suffering from mental illness. Hes also on a ship to the marinas trench, but this is no ordinary ship. Shusterman tells the hardships of mental illnesses through images and metaphors that make the reader really understand the hardships and confusion of living with a mental illness


                   As a person who has lived through mental illness, I've seen a lot of books trying to romanticize or make mental illness into something its not. I really appreciate how this book doesn't do that. This gives a fantastic insight into what its really like to have a mental illness. The drawings in the book are fantastic, and are actually made by the authors son, when he was suffering in his "deep", which i think is really neat. The plot of this book is also fantastic. The author gives away little secrets one at a time that really give you insight as the book goes on, which i really really enjoyed. it takes awhile to get into this book and understand how it works, but once you do its a fantastic read. Overall I gave this book four out of five stars.

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Paper Towns (4/5)

Paper Towns
John Green



                                Paper Towns is a YA novel about a boy named Quentin, who spends a magical night of adventure with his girl next door neighborhood crush Margo Roth Speigelman. When Margo runs away, Quentin runs around following the clues she left him trying to find her.



                                 This book was good, but with reading it i felt as if I became a book snob. This book has topped the YA bestseller charts for months now, and I honestly can't see why. Margo has very counterculture ideas which are nice to see, and the way she talks about orlando as a "paper town" is also very interesting. This book is also extremely funny, which honestly saved it for me. I seem to think that way about most of Green's books, that the plot and characters are predictable and cliche but the books are so funny that it ends up raising the books rating in the end. So Overall, I gave this book a four out of five stars. It was good, but I have a lot of problems with it.(Which again, might just be me being a book snob.) I'd be happy to discuss this book with anyone in the comments though.

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