Review: Looking for Alaska by: John Green

Published: March 3rd 2005 by Puffin

Pages: Paperback, 221 pages

Source: Bought

 

                         

 

Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet Francois Rabelais called the "Great Perhaps." Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young. Clever, funny, screwed-up, and dead sexy, Alaska will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps.

Oh my goodness!!!!! What else can I say about this book other than that absolutley nothing. I had really high expectations about this book and all those expectations were met. Looking for Alaska has changed the way a lot of people think of other people. It did the same for me. It is set up into two parts the Before and the After.

The writing was beautiful and the way it was only marked by days instead of chapters really added to the story. Getting more and mroe into the story you see more and more of the characters growing. Especially as Pudge and Alaska grow closer and closer as friends and possible after. The way John Green wrote the book when the After happend you start really think of the way you percieve people yourself. And the way it ended with no real wrap up to what happen in between the Before and the After your left to wonder what really happend.

Review: Daughter of Smoke and Bone by: Laini Taylor

Around the world, black hand prints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky.In a dark and dusty shop, a devil's supply of human teeth grown dangerously low.
And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherworldly war.
Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real; she's prone to disappearing on mysterious "errands"; she speaks many languages—not all of them human; and her bright blue hair actually grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she's about to find out.
When one of the strangers—beautiful, haunted Akiva—fixes his fire-colored eyes on her in an alley in Marrakesh, the result is blood and starlight, secrets unveiled, and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent past. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself?


I really wanted to like this book did but it didn't just do anything for me. And I can't quit put my finger on why not none of the characters were bothering me. I think the main problem i was just confused about everything. I found myself wondering all the time what the hell is going on. I think the main reason why is because i feel, and maybe this is just my imagination, that this book is very detailed oriented. I feel as though if you miss one detail you get lost very easily. But maybe its just me I don't know.

The character like I said I really enjoyed. Even all of the non-main characters I enjoyed. Except Razgut he was just plain weird and creepy. Karou and Akiva were amazing together and even apart they are fantastic. I loved Zuzanna she was one of the few good best friends in YA.

The setting both in the normal world and the other world was awesome. Unlike anything I had ever before. And another thing that bothered me was the pacing but that was probably just another detail thing.