Title: The Fault In Our Stars
Author: John Green
Published: 2012
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 4 out of 5
This was my first book by John Green recommended by Goodreads after I read 'Me Before You'. I loved loved loved this book! Lots of Kleenex, tears, and sobs and I wasn't ready it close it. This book is about teenagers who are either going through cancer treatment or are in remission. It is heart-wrenching to read the treatments, pain, and kids dealing with the death of their friends. The characters fit perfectly with the story but somehow sounded very mature for their age and thinking. But I kept thinking maybe it was so because of the hardships they go through. Parents of those kids don't have it easy either (no parent should ever go through that).
Hazel Grace Lancaster is a 16-year-old with stage IV thyroid cancer and has been living with an oxygen tank since she was diagnosed at the age of 12. She is on an experimental drug that keeps her tumors shrunk, but she is called "Terminal" all along. She attends a support group at a church and meets Augustus Waters, who is in remission for nearly a year and a half. Gus (Augustus), is charismatic, attractive, and handsome with one leg missing due to cancer.
Both Gus and Hazel have a good time with each other while they deal with Isaac and his blindness due to cancer. Gus and Hazel read a book 'An Imperial Affliction', which does not have an end. Gus, through 'Make A Wish Foundation', takes Hazel to Amsterdam to meet the author of that book, but the main reason was to spend more time with Hazel. Hazel knows that Gus has a future whereas she doesn't. The relationship she has with her parents is beautifully written too. She is sad about her parents going through pain and the issues with money because of her. She is always sad to see her dad cry. The only time she behaves as a teen is When is interacting with her parents.
Humor, death, cancer, loss of sight, love, losing someone you love and know, thoughts about death, afterlife, and funerals through a teen's perspective are written very well. I have read many reviews about this book and the author and pretty much everyone says that the characters are the same in all his books, but his books have really good ratings. I will probably read more of John Green's books.
Favorite lines from the book:
Author: John Green
Published: 2012
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 4 out of 5
This was my first book by John Green recommended by Goodreads after I read 'Me Before You'. I loved loved loved this book! Lots of Kleenex, tears, and sobs and I wasn't ready it close it. This book is about teenagers who are either going through cancer treatment or are in remission. It is heart-wrenching to read the treatments, pain, and kids dealing with the death of their friends. The characters fit perfectly with the story but somehow sounded very mature for their age and thinking. But I kept thinking maybe it was so because of the hardships they go through. Parents of those kids don't have it easy either (no parent should ever go through that).
Hazel Grace Lancaster is a 16-year-old with stage IV thyroid cancer and has been living with an oxygen tank since she was diagnosed at the age of 12. She is on an experimental drug that keeps her tumors shrunk, but she is called "Terminal" all along. She attends a support group at a church and meets Augustus Waters, who is in remission for nearly a year and a half. Gus (Augustus), is charismatic, attractive, and handsome with one leg missing due to cancer.
Both Gus and Hazel have a good time with each other while they deal with Isaac and his blindness due to cancer. Gus and Hazel read a book 'An Imperial Affliction', which does not have an end. Gus, through 'Make A Wish Foundation', takes Hazel to Amsterdam to meet the author of that book, but the main reason was to spend more time with Hazel. Hazel knows that Gus has a future whereas she doesn't. The relationship she has with her parents is beautifully written too. She is sad about her parents going through pain and the issues with money because of her. She is always sad to see her dad cry. The only time she behaves as a teen is When is interacting with her parents.
Humor, death, cancer, loss of sight, love, losing someone you love and know, thoughts about death, afterlife, and funerals through a teen's perspective are written very well. I have read many reviews about this book and the author and pretty much everyone says that the characters are the same in all his books, but his books have really good ratings. I will probably read more of John Green's books.
Favorite lines from the book:
- Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.
- Don't tell me you are one of those people who becomes their disease.
- What a slut time is. She screws everybody.
- You say you're not special because the world doesn't know you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you.
- Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
- You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.
- The only person I wanted to talk about his death was him.
- The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me because there was no longer anyone to remember with.
- Pain is like fabric: The stronger it is, the more it's worth.
- Grief does not change you. It reveals you.
- The marks humans leave are too often scars.
- You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.
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