Looking for Alaska

That was very different from what I expected from a John Green book (the cover doesn't help, it looks like a Twilight spinoff– there's a Spanish edition that got it right with an Alaska lost in a maze but i digress).

It starts like the usual teen possible romance book, but this was mature instead of quirky. A bit of Dead Poet Society vibe going to it, the boarding school and scholarship kids setting makes the John Green characters believable for once– instead of the usual feeling of John trying too hard to make teen characters interesting and it ending up feeling like an adult is speaking through them. A true coming of age story and the struggles of figuring out the meaning of life.