Miles, aka Pudge, decides to follow in his father's footsteps to attend boarding school because he has no real friends, so why not, he thinks. His roommate Chip, aka the Colonel, immediately takes him under his wing and introduces him to Alaska, who Pudge immediately falls for. Alaska flirts with him while reminding him she has an out of town boyfriend who she loves. Alaska and the Colonel bend the rules just as far as they can without breaking them and Pudge is enthralled.
But that's before. After, everything changes. Pudge pushes everyone away, he goes to class but he's not really there. He just needs to piece everything together, and then everything will be okay...right?
This is the second John Green novel I've read and I honestly think this was a lot like Paper Towns, which was written after this. I found the two protagonists to be very similar as well as the girls they were obsessed with. Pudge worries about himself in relation to Alaska instead of what's actually bothering Alaska. He idolizes her and is selfish about her affections toward him and their other friends.
This book was just interesting enough to keep me reading and since it's a short YA novel it didn't take long to finish. This is the first book that I read just because it's on PBS's Great American Read, which is kind of disappointing. However, I don't expect to instantly like every book on the list.
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