For me this one was just a big meh. I guess John Green his writing style just isn't for me. I read The Fault In Our Stars and Paper Towns before and this just feels like the same cookie cutter characters.

John Green has a nice way with words, but it also feels kinda try-hard? He gives almost every character he writes this same way with words and it's just too much. There is always the smart, witty one, in love with books/lps, a bit of a dorky one, the funny friend and they all talk like they are fancy poets. These words don't fit the characters in the story for me. Also the instalove or the obsessing over a girl. I've read it before in Paper Towns/TFIOS, I don't need to read the same again.

I also felt like this story wasn't really going somewhere. Yes something big happened, but I was so obvious that it didn't grip me at all. The only grip it had on me was 'ugh no you did NOT just do that' and not in the sad sense of it. And after the big thing it was just a big nothing all over again, at least for me. Also big spoiler:

Spoiler

Miles kept whining about how Alaska could never do good on her promise again with 'doing stuff again later'. (Like kissing etc.) Hello, she is dead and this is what you think about? If you love her so much like you keep saying all the book long, shouldn't you be sad that there is other stuff you could never do with her anymore? Also, you have a girlfriend. Don't think about that for a second though, let's only focus on the 'mistake' Alaska made.

I was already done with John Green, but gave it one last try since this is the favourite of so many people. I'm sad it didn't grip me the way I hoped it would, but that's fine. I guess his books just aren't for me. I'll like his quotes a whole lot better without knowing the story behind them.