Looking For Alaska Review

Title: Looking For Alaska
Author: John Green
Genre: Contemporary
Page Count: 221
Format: Paperback
Awards: Printz Honor Award, New York Times Bestseller
Rating: 4/5 stars

Pre-reading (the part with no spoilers)
 Going into this novel, I was both excited and also wary. While I had read two John Green books in the past (The Fault In Our Stars, Paper Towns), and loved them to death, this book sounded...different. After finishing this book, I still don't really 100% know what bothered me about this book. If you do not know what it is about, here is the summary taken from Goodreads:

Before. 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. Then 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. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed-up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young, who is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart.

After. Nothing is ever the same.

I do recommend this book. I thought it was wonderful and strange and different and sad and amazing for a debut novel. However, I did have issues, so...

After Reading (spoilers) this ink will be posted in white, highlight over to read
So Pudge, our main character, knows the last words to a lot of famous people. A LOT. I felt this was kinda weird, and didn't see how it connected to the plot into later in the book, after Alaska had died.
Another thing. I felt like the whole mystery over her death was pointless. They did not find anything, and the Colonel was not really expecting to find anything. Everyone yelled at one another and Pudge's parents acted like concerned parents in the background.
However, I liked most of these characters. Alaska, Lara (except for that blow job scene...)m found the Colonel annoying. For such a small book, it took me awhile to finish.

Anyway, sorry this is so short, almost midnight and also my first review!