Quentin Jacobsen has known Margo Roth Spiegelman for his whole life and he has grown to love her. However, they’ve grown apart since their childhood friendship. Ever since, Margo has become an enigma of a person, leaving Quentin and those around her shaken at her late night adventures and her recurring feats of danger. One night Margo reappears outside Quentin’s window, dressed in black, asking to be let in. She later whisks Quentin away on one of her adventures. Quentin experiences a Margo he hasn’t seen in a long time. But then she is gone the next day, forcing Quentin to embark on a journey to find Margo and solve the mystery of her.

There were a few aspects of this novel that I felt added interesting elements. The dialogue was spectacularly real and felt extremely immersive but still simple to follow. To add, the writing was minimalistic yet expressed the emotions of the characters explicitly and through metaphors that were pleasantly relatable. However, the characters felt two-dimensional and without depth. I thought that the small quirks that the author added to the characters were distracting and acted as a façade, hiding the fact that the characters felt the same. Adding to this, I felt that huge elements of the characters were never addressed or elaborated on, including a few huge questions I had, such as why Quentin even loved Margo? I also thought the book did not have any other elements other than the quest to find Margo, who I thought was never given any emotional depth. Lastly, I found that the relationships were secondary in light of the ever engulfing quest to find Margo.

I would recommend this book for anyone who likes mysteries and enjoys John Green’s other books, such as The Fault in Our Stars or Looking for Alaska. Also, try Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple as it has a very similar storyline.