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Αναζητώντας την Αλάσκα by John Green

14 reviews

niaaas_oo's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Car accident, Death of parent, and Abandonment

bearystarry'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? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

John Green has a great talent for writing a poignant ending; this one even made me cry. Unfortunately I found the rest of the book frustrating, as I did with Paper Towns. I do think this book is the more enjoyable for me of the two but they’re very similar in many ways and I will probably not be rereading either.

There’s something frustrating to me about both Margo and Alaska being incredibly tortured and traumatized teenage girls who are also then subjected to being objects of obsession to boring, privileged teenage boys who need an adventure. I know the Point is to highlight how girls are people and not manic pixie dream girl archetype Creatures but. The amount of trauma they seem to be required to hold onto feels… some kind of way to me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Child death, Cursing, Death, Suicide, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, and Classism

mmtrue's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful sad fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Classism

Moderate: Cursing and Drug use

tiaroseshang's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Sexual content

Moderate: Abandonment

pinksrobin's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious sad medium-paced

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

5.0

This was my favorite book growing up, I’ve read it about 3/5 times. It’s captivating! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Car accident, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Alcohol

ak97x's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Abandonment, and Classism

chronicoverthinker's review against another edition

sommerferien

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Alcohol

shadow_seven's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, and Alcohol

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

navayiota's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

I didn't really enjoy most of this book. I found the characters annoying cause they all take themselves way too seriously. Maybe I'm angry cause they remind me of myself and how mysterious I wanted to be at their ages, and if so I guess the writing is genius for evoking that kind of feeling in me, but it really hit a nerve. The punchlines Alaska delivered at the end of some chapters really pissed me off cause this seems like the exact kind of character kids with god complexes (me in middle school) would attach to, and I think the world has enough smartasses already, we dont need more. Maybe I'm being overly critical, I don't know, I think this book might grow on me if I read it again after a while. The last third of it was a lot more interesting, and I think that might have been affected by the fact that I was reading it after learning about a death in my family, and had to listen to all my family members express some of the thoughts the characters had about Alaska's death. Maybe me being in a more sensitive state made me connect to the death of a young girl more, even if I didn't really care about her as a person. I did feel very bad for her though. It seems to me like Alaska had BPD, I'm not sure if it was John Green's vision to make her like that, if it was then she was super underdeveloped, but if it wasn't then that's just a funny coincidence.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicide, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing