I admit, it took me this long (2019) to watch Paper Towns out of fear that it would not live up to the book, which I read and fell in love with for the first time back in 2016. I was wrong. Yes, the book will always be 'better than the movie,' but maybe that's also because a book becomes anything we want it to be. It's left to our imaginations. Author John Green conveys so much in this book, and I can genuinely say that I felt just as much power in this movie. It is brilliantly cast, and the whole things is perfectly centred between simplistic and spectacular - such is life, I think, and such is Green's novel. Honestly, as a fan, I'm not disappointed in the movie adaptation at all. In fact, I'm quite proud of this film, and I feel like this story will be relevant - at least to me - always.