Looking for Alaska
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By John Green
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The unmissable first novel from bestselling and award-winning author of THE FAULT IN OUR STARS and TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN.
“In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla and on that thin-mooned night I could see little more than her silhouette, but even in the dark, I could see her eyes – fierce emeralds. And beautiful.”
BEFORE. Miles Halter’s whole life has been one big non-event until he starts at anything-but-boring Culver Creek Boarding School and meets Alaska Young. Gorgeous, clever, funny and utterly fascinating she pulls Miles into her world, launches him into a new life, and steals his heart. But when tragedy strikes, and Miles comes face-to-face with death he discovers the value of living and loving unconditionally.
AFTER: Nothing will ever be the same.
Poignant, funny, heartbreaking and compelling, this novel will stay with you forever.
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I very much related to the main character feeling as though his life is one big non-event, and I enjoyed living through the events of the book vicariously through him. And the book was able to make me genuinely emotional in a way many fail to.
I was a bit iffy through around the first half of the book, because I didn't really get it. I wasn't sure where the story was going, and what to expect. But the I realised it was because the book was doing it right, the characters felt real. And I finally fell in love with it. They had their quirks, they had their coping mechanisms, and certainly their flaws, but for all they argued, they still cared about eachother.
