For my birthday (the first) I received the book The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. Now I had heard a lot of good things about this book and recently have become a fan of John Greens work. I must say if you haven't read this book, I suggest you get your butt to your nearest book store or library and pick it up. This book is one of the greatest and saddest books I have read in a while. I mean I fall in love with a lot of books but I literally read this book in like two days, I was hooked, and I haven't been hooked on a book in a while. This book literally made me cry. At the end I just sat there weeping. I do have a bone to pick with Mr.Green. WHY is all I ask WHY!! I was expecting a happy ending, not one that made me cry!! I am not going to tell you guys what made me cry in case you have not read The Fault In Our Stars, because it is a plot twist and if I told you then it just ruin the whole experience of reading the book.
I would honestly give this book a 10 out of 10 rating. It was such a wonderful book. It had a great mix of drama, happiness, sadness and ughh it was just a wonderful book!!
The basic plot line of the book is there is this girl, Hazel, who was diagnosed with terminal cancer of the lungs at age 13 and is on a drug that had basically kept her alive. Hazel doesn't really leave the house, she was pulled out of school, although she takes college classes over at her local community college. Her mom is quite overbearing, always close, always there. So Hazel becomes sort of depressed, she doesn't really leave the house, she doesn't have a lot of friends, nor does she hang out with of her friends a lot. Her mom signs her up for a cancer support group. She goes to this weekly. She had kind of became friends with this one boy Issac, who one week brought his friend, Augustus. Augustus stared at Hazel the entire time at support group. Augustus is an amputee from osteosarcoma, which he had and is now in remission. After support group he pulls Hazel aside and they being talking. She goes over to his house and that's where their friendship starts. They bond over Hazels favorite book 'An Imperial Affliction'. They begin to spend more time together and Gus loves An Imperial Affliction. Hazel really wanted to meet the author of her favorite book after an email exchange with the author that Gus had and so did Hazel. The author, through his personal assistant agreed that if she came to Amsterdam, where he lived, he would tell her what happens after the book had finished, as she was always obsessed with what happens after the book ends, but the author never wrote a second book. Gus, using his 'wish' from the 'genies' (like Make A Wish) to fly him and Hazel over to talk to the author. The author was not what either of them expected. He was a drunk. Although upset they still had a great time in Amsterdam. The authors assistant takes them around to different places in Amsterdam as she had set up the meeting without the authors knowledge and she felt terrible about the way he reacted. This is where Hazel learns something terrible.
This is where I stop because you need to read the novel yourself because if I tell you then it just doesn't give you the same affect when you read it. If you really want to know, Google it.
Thank you John Green for writing such a great book and many other books, such as Looking for Alaska, which I am also not to happy with the ending of that book either, but that's for a later date:)
Honestly this is one of the best books I've read in a while and I really suggest you read it too!! If you have read it, let me know your thoughts in the comments down below!!
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