The characters are well drawn, witty, and full of individual quirks. This is an outstanding coming-of-age novel that doesn’t resort to a “happily ever after” ending, but the characters each seek closure on their own terms. You will feel excitement, sadness, and maybe even a little anger reading this book, but this book will be memorable. The writing is as great as I always expect now from JG, and the story unfolds with a great pace that makes you never want to put the book down. Not waiting to live your life but instead constantly be seeking what makes you feel alive and fills you with passion. Green makes ‘seeking a Great Perhaps’ the cornerstone of this story. Of all the John Green books I’ve read this one is easily my favorite and yes that includes The Fault in Our Stars. It’s a book aimed to a teenage demographic but it’s a short read with a great storyline full of lessons. I’m going to keep this review short, because so much has been said on this book. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart.
The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed-up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young, who is an event unto herself. He heads off to the sometimes crazy, possibly unstable, and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Miles “Pudge” Halter’s whole existence has been one big nonevent, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave the “Great Perhaps” (François Rabelais, poet) even more.
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