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Looking for Alaska by John Green

44 reviews

charley_books's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Alcohol

matchababesandbooks's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Very interesting. This was my second John Green book (the first being The Fault in Our Stars), and I’m not totally sure which one I enjoyed more. I don’t mind John Green’s writing, in fact, I think I like it more than most people, but it’s not my absolute favorite. However, it didn’t take away from the story. The characters were likable but a little irritable, as all teenagers are lmao. I’m a sucker for a good boarding school trope, so I already knew I’d at least like this. And I did. Although, I bought this book and was eager to read it because I read reviews and watched videos of people grouping this in with the likes of The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Maybe I’m a little biased because Perks is one of my favorite books, but I wouldn’t say Looking for Alaska is on the same level. I think there could’ve been so much more. I understand that a big plot point in the story is that Pudge nor the reader knows all that much about Alaska, but this makes it very hard for me to connect emotionally with the book.

How am I supposed to be utterly devastated when Alaska dies when I don’t even know her? And in regards to her death, almost all of the “After” section just feels really repetitive. It picked up more toward the end, but that’s because Pudge and the Colonel were finally starting to function normally again. I feel like I’m shitting too much. I really did like the book I swear.

While I was a little underwhelmed, I think it’s just a common thing for a book to be immensely overhyped on social media. But I will say that I giggled a little at most of the jokes cracked in the book, and I haven’t watched the series yet but I’m really excited to!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Suicide, and Alcohol

Moderate: Addiction, Sexual content, and Death of parent

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Vomit, and Injury/Injury detail

rory_john14's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Vomit, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Moderate: Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Toxic relationship, Medical content, and Classism

raine83's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

“You never know what someone is going through. Be kind. Always.” - is the quote that best describes this book for me.

Every character, every flaw, all the differences between them, their childhood & every struggle they went through makes it real. Someone in our world is one of these characters. You’ll just never know who. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Blood, and Death of parent

sherlene_06's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

Finished this book within 10 days. It was a really reflective book. I almost cried at the climax of what happened.

The book beautifully captures, grief, death and guilt. It also explains very well the concept of the afterlife and why we believe in it if we do. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Car accident, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

nina_iv's review

adventurous challenging emotional funny informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

I like the vibes even though it is diff from what i have ever read 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, and Alcohol

sabaselim's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Domestic abuse, Car accident, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Minor: Drug use and Suicide

trycerabel's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, Death of parent, and Alcohol

siennakt30's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Infidelity, Suicide, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Classism

reuben394's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Sexual content, Suicide, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Moderate: Drug abuse, Mental illness, and Vomit

Minor: Addiction, Bullying, Cancer, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail