"The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

Genre: Romance, Tragedy, Life, Humor

Target Audience: Young Adult, Adult

Hazel is a teenage girl dealing with terminal cancer. Wait! Don’t scroll down or click the back button or anything drastic like that! Hazel may have cancer but this isn’t your typical cancer book. It’s more about living and growing up than death and dying. Hazel has been dealing with the idea of her terminal cancer for years. She goes through life reading and staying at home watching America’s Next Top Model. One day however, when she goes to her cancer support group (held in the Literal Heart of Jesus) she meets Augustus Waters. He’s charming and lively, an odd type of person to be in the cancer support group where people ride the elevator out and never come back. They form this awesome connection and proceed to really live again (telling you any more would be spoiler-y).

I read TFiOS this summer for my fiction summer reading book because I had read something else by the author and really liked his style. I loved this book. It was funny and heartbreaking (yes, more sad things, sorry) and beautifully written. It was a love story done right. I have said I don’t particularly like romance but this was beautiful and sweet and really atypical. TFiOS wasn’t just a love story though, it was a family story and a friend story and a life story.

5/5 stars

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