The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Publisher: Speak (January 2012)
337 pages, eBook (purchased myself for $2.99)
Book Rating: 4 Stars
Content Note: Includes Swearing and Sexual Situations
Hazel is a sixteen-year-old girl with terminal cancer who has become depressed and largely cut herself off from life, that is until she meets Augustus, a seventeen-year-old boy who’s lost his leg to cancer and meets her at a support group for teens with cancer. Now this sounds like a really depressing read from the description, and I had put off reading it for some time for that very reason, but I finally tackled it, and though there are inevitably some sad parts, the overall feelings I got from the book is strength, hope and taking full advantage of the present. Hazel and Augustus, despite their medical problems/diagnoses, have a very normal teenage courtship, and even with all the heavy issues they are dealing with, I think that really comes through. Both Hazel and Augustus were such fun, quirky characters, you can’t help but get wrapped up in the story. Great read!
Movie Adaptations:
The Fault in Our Stars (2014)
Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Nat Wolff
Movie Rating: PG-13
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