Book Review of 'Looking for Alaska' by John Green

'Looking for Alaska' is a book about an unpopular boy who goes to boarding school in Florida 'to seek a Great Perhaps' and start life fresh again. He memorizes last words of people and reads their biographies. Then he meets a girl, named Alaska, who could turn his life around and who asks him one question...

I really enjoyed this book and found it a great read, and yes, I did shed a few tears. John Green is definitely one of my favorite authors as he puts so much emotion into his writing and it really shines through when you read the book.

In this book you can really see what the characters would and when tragedy strikes, you feel as if you were there too. You are included as part of the story and it can really connect with you.

Another really good thing with this book is that it gets straight to the point and it doesn't take too long to explain whats happening. I liked the way that the chapters are counting down to the 'main event' of the book so to speak, and then it counts the other way back up until the end of the book.

The best bit of the book for me was the ending. I do not mean this when people say that as if they are happy that the book is over. I just really liked how that book ended and it made the whole book worth the read because I like the endings that round the book off well and make you feel like it is meant to finish there.

So if you like books with tragedies, last words and, great perhaps, then this is the book for you.

READ AGAIN?: 99.99% (only because i don't like re-reading books)
ENJOYABILITY: 10/10
OVERALL RATING: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥  (5 HEARTS)
AGE RANGE: 13+

Book Review of 'An Abundance of Katherines' by John Green

'An Abundance of Katherines' is a book about a boy, named Colin, who has had nineteen girlfriends all called Katherine. He is a child- prodigy but wants to become a genius, or at least famous. For this he has to create something completely new, or a new idea. But first he must get over his nineteenth Katherine dumping him.

One thing that I really liked about this book was the way at the bottom of some of the pages there was a glossary that linked to parts of the text telling you more information about them. My favourite being when he learnt 99 digits of Pi using a sentence where each letter corresponds to a number.

Although I thought that the ending was slightly predictable, I still thoroughly enjoyed this book. If I'm honest, I didn't actually understand the appendix, at all, or I really couldn't be bothered to understand it, but if you like complicated things and graphs, then I advise reading the appendix!

But all that aside, the actually story is an amazing read and I really enjoyed reading this and it filled the time I spent driving around France on holiday. So as it seems, I have turned out to be a great fan of John Green!

READ AGAIN?: 93%

ENJOYABILITY: 9/10

OVERALL RATING: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

AGE RANGE: 13+

Book Review of 'The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian' by Sherman Alexie

'The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian' is a book about a young Indian boy from a small reservation who tries to overcome racism and to fit in with an all white school.

This book shows what it can actually be like for a poor Indian living in world full of racism and truth shines through in all parts of the book.

I really enjoyed this book and at parts may have brought a tear to my eye. No, it's not a sad book, but the determination that the character showed and the courage was amazing through everything that he was going through. He puts a real effort to fit in even if things work differently, you live and learn.

A nice touch to the book is the drawings in there. The boy likes to draw and so some of his drawings are put into the book and I really liked finding them although you have to go back and read them, they were a nice touch.

One of the main things that I found from this book, was how it reminded me how lucky I am with my life and that there are many people worse off than me who deserve better, and have done nothing wrong to get what they have.

Overall though this book was a really good read and I enjoyed it thoroughly with a heart-warming ending.

READ AGAIN?: 84%

ENJOYABILITY: 9/10

OVERALL RATING: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

AGE RANGE: 12+