Book Blog #81: An Abundance of Katherines by John Green

Title: An Abundance of Katherines
Author: John Green
# of Pages: 228 (paperback)
Genre: YA, Romance, Contemporary
Rating: ★★★★☆
Synopsis: When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton's type is girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact. On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washedup child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, and an overweight, Judge Judy-loving best friend riding shotgun–but no Katherines. Colin is on a mission to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, which he hopes will predict the future of any relationship, avenge Dumpees everywhere, and finally win him the girl.
Review: It's amazing! I thought that since Green wrote this so many years ago, it wasn't going to be that good. And, although it did take me longer than usual to finish a Green novel, I found that I enjoyed it. A lot.

Be warned, potential readers, there is a plethora of smart-ness and complicated looking math (of course, this is debatable. The math included can look complicated to some, but not to, perhaps, a child prodigy/genius or an assistant professor, as was the one who created the theorems), so if one is uninterested in that type of thing, I'd highly advise you NOT to read this book.

And, of course, if you have some strange hate for footnotes (or if you do not like your reading to be interrupted with little side notes on the information you are reading), you defiantly should NOT read this book. However, if you have loved Green's works thus far (or even if you have only read TFIOS and loved it) or have never read a single Green book and would like to read one, then yes, you should read this book.  .

For all TFIOS fans, I found this book to be somewhat similar. You know those moments in The Fault in Our Stars when you're bawling your eyes out one moment and then laughing hysterically the next? Yeah, there are a few moments like that in An Abundance of Katherines. I'd be reading a scene in horror one moment and then I find myself laughing like a crazy person. Maybe that's just me though...

Yes! Read this book!!!