An Abundance of Katherines by John Green

Difficulty level (easiest to hardest) - 4

Emotional level (least to most) - 3

Action (little to a lot) - 3

Previously, I had read The Fault in Our Stars, a more "well known" book written by John Green. When I read it, I really appreciated his writing style. I decided to read An Abundance of Katherines because the reviews on Amazon declared it "better than the Stars novel". 

The story of An Abundance of Katherines goes like this: a former child prodigy (Colin Singleton) spends his life dating girls by the name of Katherine, and it all ends with K19. Of course he never started dating girls by the name of Katherine on purpose, but once he noticed the pattern, those 9 little letters started sounding particularly attractive whenever he heard them. When K19 breaks up with him, he has something similar to a mental breakdown and finds himself trying to cope with it for the rest of the novel, trying to forget K19, or at least figure out why she dumped him.

I really appreciated Green's writing style in this book, like his other book. However, the math did stump me a bit. I remember graphing equations in pre-calculus, but my eyes glazed over whenever I got to a math part of the book (don't worry, you don't need to understand the math to understand the book - but if you do, there is an appendix at the back of the novel). I particularly enjoyed all off the footnotes in the book. Whenever Colin says something particularly interesting, or some kind of trivia, Green usually inserts a footnote to explain it further, and usually it's quite humorous.

If you're thinking about reading The Fault in Our Stars, or another book by John Green, or if you're a fan of his already, I would suggest checking out An Abundance of Katherines. This book is humorous, enjoyable, and you probably won't want to put it down. Another reason to read it? It's being made into a movie, no release dates yet. However, filming for The Fault in Our Stars starts August 27, 2013.

Overall rating (poor to excellent) - 9.5

Quotes from the novel:

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