Looking for Alaska is a sad, emotional and heart wrenching book, maybe that's why it is one of the best books you will ever get to read. It is filled with the bitter truth and honesty of young adulthood and life in general. Looking for Alaska has the perfect balance of excitement, physical connections and emotional connections which takes you on a crazy journey.





































When Pudge leaves his friendless past behind for Culver Creek Boarding School in Birmingham, Alabama he is launched into a crazy world of smoking, alcohol and other temptations. This is one of the things that make this book so edgy and exciting. It also helps you to understand who the characters really are, teenagers.





















Looking for Alaska is split up into two parts, the first is adventure, the characters finding themselves, discovering who they are, friendship, and Pudge searching for the “great perhaps”. The second half and end of the book is filled with loss, the search for the truth, and the strength and importance of friendship. One thing that makes this book so special and unique is how it is split up, not by chapters but by a countdown. This definitely moves you to want to keep reading and find what is at the end.

Over all I loved this book it is exciting and interesting and keeps you on your toes, there is never a dull moment or boring part. I also loved how honest the book is, it really brings the characters to life. While reading Looking for Alaska you really get attached to the characters, when they feel pain you feel it too. The book is so well written you feel like you are right there with the gang.
Looking for Alaska is an amazing book that everyone should read, but it does have "adult content.” Saying that, I recommend this book for high schoolers and mature middle schoolers, 13 and up.