Review: Looking For Alaska by John Green

Title: Looking For Alaska

Author: John Green

Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet Francois Rabelais called the "Great Perhaps." Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young. Clever, funny, screwed-up, and dead sexy, Alaska will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps.

Looking for Alaska brilliantly chronicles the indelible impact one life can have on another. A stunning debut, it marks John Green's arrival as an important new voice in contemporary fiction.

My thoughts:

Intense! John Green is truly brilliant; he deliberately takes you inside a world that is quite realistic and yet very powerful. This book is so real and the character development is flawless. I love every bit of each character; they are very tangible and at the same time unique because of their diverse personalities. His allusions to novels also gave me an idea to read some of the books mentioned in the story. Looking For Alaska is indeed truly a powerful story as it questions about the struggles in our life and teaches you how to approach realistic situations. This book is complex although I do recommend reading it for ages 15+ since there are some explicit scenes and crude language but overall this book is AMAZING I'm definitely planning on reading John Green's novels soon.

Overall: ♥♥♥♥