Looking for Alaska by John Green (Spoilers may be included) | | Book Review

So, I've been on a John Green kick lately. I read The Fault in Our Stars probably over a year ago and fell in love with that book. I wanted to read more John Green books, so I decided to go for Looking for Alaska.(Sorry about the quality of the photo. I wanted to begin using my own photos for book covers, but I need to look for better lighting!)

Publication Date: January 1, 2005

YA Fiction

"Goodreads Description: Before. Miles "Pudge" Halter's whole existence has been one big nonevent, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave the "Great Perhaps" (François Rabelais, poet) even more. He heads off to the sometimes crazy, possibly unstable, and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed-up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young, who is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart.

After. Nothing is ever the same."

This book was published back in 2006 and it's based around this boy named Miles or "Pudge". He moves from his hometown in Florida to Birmingham, Alabama to go to boarding school at Culver Creek High School where his dad went when he was younger. Pudge is big on last words of celebrities, authors, or presidents; he's always reading biographies of some sort. On his first day at the Creek, he meets his roommate the Colonel who then takes him to meet Alaska Young. Alaska Young throws her personality the moment she walks into the text and Pudge immediately falls for her. I normally don't like giving away spoilers in my reviews, but god, this book had me heartbroken in the most unexpected way.

SPOILERS start here:

There are two sections: Before and After. In the "Before" section, I was bored with the book. All they did was drink, smoke, and do pranks. Which is fine, but I felt there was no meaning and I thought all this book was going to be about was Pudge falling in love with Alaska.

Oh no, it was way worse and had me in tears. I didn't even like Alaska all that much; she was so screwed up and bipolar that it was hard to like her and I didn't understand why Pudge loved her so much. But, he did.

In the after, Alaska dies in a car wreck and that tore me up. Pudge and the Colonel then go on this mission to find out whether or not the car wreck was suicidal. I got to this one page when everything was figured out and I just paused and stared at that page. The amazement, the sadness that I felt when I read what she was going after when she died was so beyond sad.

I'm sorry for the spoilers in this review, but it was just something I had to write down!

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