Looking For Alaska - Sunyyah

Looking For Alaska, another one of John Green's best selling novels, is about a high school student, Miles Halter, who is tired of his secure and safe life at home. He decides to transfer to boarding school called Culver Creek to discover, in his own way, what a dying poet Francois Rabelais called the "Great Perhaps." When in his departure, he stumbles up on a clever, mysterious, hilarious and daring girl named Alaska Young, who Miles fell deeply in love with. Although, Alaska commits suicide in a car crash, just to propel Miles Halter to enter inside the labyrinth which is of Alaska's mind and life to show him what the Great Perhaps is. I thought this was a very well thought out book and did give a little plot twist in the middle of the book, where it transfers from Miles Halter having to discover his wants and needs to having to figure out what Alaska wanted and needed.

This book is very much connected to John Green's other best selling novel, Paper Towns. Paper Towns and Looking For Alaska had similar connections because they were both about a boy in high school who falls in love with a mysterious, ingenious and daring girl. With that in mind, the girl travels a far distance away from the boy (although Alaska's travel was in death). The boy, while uncovering the mystery to their ways, unlocks something about themselves, as well as something about the girl in which they never knew about. I would definitely recommend this book to people who are compelled to mystery and adventure books, while also keeping in mind about metaphors and clues.