Looking For Alaska by John Green is by far my favorite book ever written by him. Now this is one of his earlier books and I am just a tad late jumping on this band wagon but, better late than never!
A boy named Miles, aka Pudge, goes off to boarding school that his family has been attending for many generations. Pudge wasn't a party goer or a smoker or drinker but you will come to find out, this changes very soon after he gets to school. Pudge shares a room with Chip, aka Colonel, and they soon become best friends. Colonel then introduces Pudge to Alaska.
Pudge was blown away by Alaska. He thought she was gorgeous, funny, unique, free-spirited, outgoing and just Alaska. Alaska was always breaking and bending the rules. Alaska was always working on a new prank to prank people and always had Pudge and Colonel in on it but always covered for them so she was the only one who got in trouble. Alaska was someone who was always showing her emotions. If she was angry you knew about it. If she was sad you knew about it. Alaska also smoked cigarettes and drank a lot and her drinking influenced some decisions that were made in the book. Especially a major part in the book. Just be prepared. You may need tissues. Anyway, she also led Pudge on. Pudge had a large, huge, ginormous, crush on Alaska and she led him on extremely badly. Alaska had a boyfriend for the entire book by the way.
After an extremely unexpected plot twist Pudge was left extremely heart broken. He and Colonel were lost for a little while there. Then they wonder if this plot twist was an accident or if it was actually planned. So they do a little investigating and they find out whether or not it was planned or an accident (no I will not tell you so you'll just have to read it yourself!) and they all have some sort of closure toward the end of the book. They carry a legacy on and make many people proud.
I absolutely loved this book. There is nothing I would change about this book! I give this book five out of five stars!
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