Hear me out. I read Looking for Alaska and I thought it was great as a literary piece. There was character development, plot twists, imagery, charaterization; the list could go on for pages. As I was reading, however, I could not help but realize how awkward it was. Again, it was a great book. But it was from...
Rating: 5/5 stars Summary from goodreads: In the years after Fincayra disappears and Merlin has been sent wandering, a young lizard-like creature, with the wings of a bat and the magical power to produce any smell it encounters, is born into the new world of Avalon. The unlikely hero—Basil, he is called—cannot find a single creature like itself...