read: 10.05.18 - 11.05.18

book: Looking For Alaska

author: John Green

blurb: Before. Miles "Pudge" Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave "the Great Perhaps" even more. He heads off to the sometimes crazy 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. She is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart. Then. . . .

After. Nothing is ever the same.

review: I've always heard mixed things about this book, and I came into it thinking that I was going to hate it seeing as I'm not the biggest fan of YA romances. But boy was I wrong.

I loved, loved, loved this book. I think it was beautifully written with really interesting characters. I thought the addition of Miles' obsession with last words was a really nice touch to the book and really added something to the narrative. I thought the characters were all really fun and I wasn't bored at any point.

I think it was a really cool book, which took an unexpected route but one that I liked and thought was super interesting. I really needed a book like this seeing as I am trying to claw my way out a reading slump, so this was very nice to just get lost in.

rating: 10/10