When I was in library school, at a YA book club meeting (not for this book), this girl told the group that she read Papers Towns but advised us not to waste our time because she said it was essentially the same story as Looking For Alaska. Now five years later I picked it up because my daughter was reading it. It is similar. I enjoyed it mostly; but I would recommend readers have space between LFA and this book. Don't read them back to back. I liked this ending better, so that was different.