Review: An Abundance of Katherines

I just finished reading the book An Abundance of Katherines. It was about Colin Singleton, a child prodigy who learned to read after age two. He had dated nineteen girls in his lifetime, all named Katherine and all had dumped him. He had just been dumped by Katherine XIX, and was a pathetic heartbroken mess, lying on his bedroom floor. His best (and only) friend Hassan decided to intervene and take him on a road trip. After several days, however, they stop in Gutshot, Tennessee, to visit the grave of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and decide to stay in Gutshot for a while. They meet Lindsey Lee Wells, the daughter of a woman who owns a tampon string factory. In Gutshot, Colin and Hassan work for Hollis, the factory owner, and soon develop a bond with Linsey and her friends.

I was fairly impressed with this book. The way that it was written really shows the author's voice, and you can hear the sarcasm, or humor, or whatever emotion that John Green is trying to portray in this book. This can be shown even in the footnotes, "Like a smart monkey, Colin possessed an extensive vocabulary, but very little grammar. Also, he didn't know dead was pronounced ded. Forgive him. He was two." (Green 17).

I really enjoyed this book, and I think you would too, if you enjoyed humor and have a high tolerance for anagrams and ridiculously long math formulas (which I don't, but everything else was good). I would give it a solid 9/10.