Looking for Alaska

I very much related to the main character feeling as though his life is one big non-event, and I enjoyed living through the events of the book vicariously through him. And the book was able to make me genuinely emotional in a way many fail to.

I was a bit iffy through around the first half of the book, because I didn't really get it. I wasn't sure where the story was going, and what to expect. But the I realised it was because the book was doing it right, the characters felt real. And I finally fell in love with it. They had their quirks, they had their coping mechanisms, and certainly their flaws, but for all they argued, they still cared about eachother.