Hazel is a cancer patient. She relies on an oxygen tank to feed her oxygen because (her words) her lungs just sucked at being lungs. After a battle with cancer, scientists had come up with a medication that could stop the growth of her tumor. Saved by this phenomenon, Hazel lives life (almost) like any normal teenager. She takes college classes, has a few friends, and watches America’s Next Top Model. As the summary says “ENTER AUGUSTUS WATERS”. A cancer patient in remission, Augustus helps Hazel see the world from a different perspective. Obsessed with the metaphoric meanings behind his every action, Augustus is a bright, sarcastic, and likable character.

The Fault in Our Stars: a novel about kids with cancer. Also, a novel that I could not help but laugh due it’s words, marvel at due to its knowledge, and cry because of, well, the character’s lives and the end of them. As per usual, John Green created a great novel. What I loved (personally) was that he used a lot of stuff that I knew. “The Red Wheelbarrow” by William Carlos Williams was mentioned, which I read and analyzed in my Writer’s Craft class, and he mentioned existentialism, and Søren Kierkegaard, a philosopher whom I studied a little. It was cool that I knew so much (made me feel a bit smarter and helped me connect).

On another note, I thought that, for a book about teenagers with cancer, it was quite funny, a lot of fun, somewhat depressing, and quite a good novel. I love this book. Sure, the idea’s not original, but what ideas are these days. (I’m addressing that, because people have noted it on other sites that it’s not ‘original’) But stories don’t have to be original. What makes a story great (in my opinion) is that it makes you feel something. So, not, it’s not original, but I thought it was a fantasmic books (;

Plot: 5/5
Characters: 5/5
World Building: 5/5
Cover: 4/5
Overall: 5/5
GoodReads Rating: 4.52/5

-review by Between Printed Pages