Looking for Alaska

Here's the thing. I'm not a John Green fan. I'm just not. I know I'm not his target audience - 13-15 year old girls - but if it's well written that shouldn't matter. Not that the author is absolutely terrible, he's not. He just...there's a tendency...he has a habit of letting his voice take over the characters. I feel like I'm reading JOHN, not Chip or Miles or Alaska or Hazel or Gus (ugh how I hated Gus in tFiOS. I'm probably one of like 10 people in the world who hated Gus. But anyway...). I often get this little voice in the back of my head screaming about how no one talks like that.

With Looking for Alaska, the preachy-ness (for lack of a better term at the moment) was still there, but it felt less/better. I saw it come through more with the adults - the religion teacher, the dean/principal - and the kids were more normal teens. Sure they had issues, but they weren't waxing poetic all the time. Well, except for Alaska, but she made sense in an odd way. I liked the interactions between the circle of friends and between them and the adults.

I figured out pretty much what was going to happen pretty early on, though I wasn't sure of the how. It all felt a little too Bridge to Terabithia after that.