Looking for Alaska Review

Why Looking for Alaska by John Green?

As you know Looking for Alaska is the book I picked for my summer reading project. One of the reasons I picked it was because I read The Fault in Our Stars last school year and it is by far my FAVORITE BOOK EVER. So of course me being a little bias for John Green books I thought “Oh, this will have to be such a great book!” It did not let me down! One of the things I did not like much about it though was the tone of Looking for Alaska went from kind of a love story and light hearted happiness to depressing death. For people I would recommend this book to would be of course John Green lovers and it is definitely not an easy book to read because of how depressing it is but if you like books with a suspense I would also read it.

Looking For Alaska

“After”

After is the second section of Looking for Alaska. When you are reading “Before” it will say “one hundred ten days before” or “fifty-eight days before” and so on, then you get to after. Right when you finish before you will want to find out why they were counting down the days so you automatically can’t put the book down. Of course you know something was wrong because they were talking about how drunk they were in the last few pages of before. I think that the biggest “hook” of the book was just the fact that the days would count down because you would really want to know what it leads up to and the whole concept of a “before” and “after”. Something HUGE has to happen that you split the book into two sections.