When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton’s type happens to be girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times to be exact. He’s also a washed-up child prodigy with ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a passion for anagrams, and an overweight, Judge Judy-obsessed best friend. Colin’s on a mission to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, which will predict the future of all relationships, transform him from a fading prodigy into a true genius, and finally win him the girl. Letting expectations go and allowing love in are at the heart of Colin’s hilarious quest to find his missing piece and avenge dumpees everywhere.
An Abundance of Katherines is the first John Green book I read. John Green is the author of The Fault in Our Stars. I had high hopes for An Abundance of Katherines but my expectations were not met. I really wanted to love this book but right from the beginning, I knew it was going to be a big disappointment. I didn’t feel like the story had a climax. To me, it was just a straight line. I almost gave up reading this book at one point. It’s not my favourite John Green book and didn’t keep me up all night reading it.
I didn’t hate Math that much but I was kind of sick with the equation in this book. Throughout the book, Colin was trying to perfect his theorem that will predict the romantic relationships of people. It’s very evident that the author did a lot of effort of trying to unleash the dumping stage of love using the graphs and formulas, but frankly, it didn’t really amazed me. And I didn’t fully understand the concept of all the Katherines at first, like what they attracted Colin. I think the author missed something in the character development that I had a really hard time getting into the 19 Katherines.
I’ll rate this book 3.5 out of 5 stars because I found it quite tedious and slow during the first few pages and it took me a long time to finish the book.
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