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3.99 AVERAGE
3.99 AVERAGE
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Whether or not anyone reads this, I still feel like I need to write it. A book of this caliber deserves every bit of praise possible. After hearing so many good things about John Green's work, I felt as though I needed to read something for myself so that I could understand all the hype. I have to say, "The Fault In Our Stars" did not disappoint. The characters are beautifully developed, both as individuals and as an ensemble, the novel is perfectly paced, and has just the right amount of light-heartedness and darkness. After reading only one book of his, John Green is already climbing up my list of favorite authors. I highly, highly recommend this book to anyone and everyone. It is an incredible piece of modern literature and needs to be read by as many people as possible.
5 stars superb loved it completely shattered my heart into pieces and glued some but not all back together. I knew it would break me but it did a much better job than I expected. And I think in a way it can be described as brutally hopeful? And honest. I highlighted so many quotes from it but let’s take one from the ending:
“We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.”
I think it puts us into our place, our small place, but combined with what Hazel said in response to Gus wanting to believe he was special, (because who doesn’t?), it reminds us of what that smallness lets us experience. Because if we were huge our mark could never be so precise, it would only ever be superficial.
“We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.”
I think it puts us into our place, our small place, but combined with what Hazel said in response to Gus wanting to believe he was special, (because who doesn’t?), it reminds us of what that smallness lets us experience. Because if we were huge our mark could never be so precise, it would only ever be superficial.
It was a really good book. I love the ending and it's not 'boys meets girl, girl falls in love with boy, they get married and happily ever after' type of book
emotional
fast-paced
This is one of the few books (honestly only the second) that made me cry.
Although the dialogue can be unrealistic... a lot, it's written beautifully and I loved every page of it.
I could recognize myself in Hazel (Although I don't have cancer or a terminal illness) and I laughed out loud as much as I cried. I even stopped reading sometimes to read a certain passage outloud to my parents, which annoyed them greatly, just so they could feel it with me.
The only reason it didn't get 5 stars is because of, as I said before, the unrealistic dialogue. Because let's be real, no teenager, no matter how much they read, can talk as if they're a 60 year-old scholar while improvising. Other than that I completely loved the book.
Although the dialogue can be unrealistic... a lot, it's written beautifully and I loved every page of it.
I could recognize myself in Hazel (Although I don't have cancer or a terminal illness) and I laughed out loud as much as I cried. I even stopped reading sometimes to read a certain passage outloud to my parents, which annoyed them greatly, just so they could feel it with me.
The only reason it didn't get 5 stars is because of, as I said before, the unrealistic dialogue. Because let's be real, no teenager, no matter how much they read, can talk as if they're a 60 year-old scholar while improvising. Other than that I completely loved the book.
emotional
sad
slow-paced
I don't think that I would have ever picked up TFIOS had it not been for my job at B&N. Having seen, what seemed like, every other customer come up to the registers with this book for weeks, I finally decided it was time to see what the craze was all about. And thank God I did. I didn't know what the book was about when I started it; I knew nothing about it. Ordinarily I would not pick up a book that so heavily emphasized teen romance, or one that centered on cancer. I don't typically have the patience or interest for the former, or the emotional stability for the latter. But TFIOS is so much more. So much. And, yes, while I ended up crying like a little baby - literally sobbing, complete with sound effects - for the final fifty or so pages, I could not be happier that I purchased and read this beautiful work of art. Not having read anything else by Green, I didn't know what to expect of his writing, but jeez, is he not just so freaking smart. That's the best word I can come up with to describe his writing, because, unfortunately, I am not so much so. But Green has this way of writing a YA novel, from the perspective of a sixteen year old girl no less, that just made me stop every time I was forced to put the book down and just think, this is brilliant. So I laughed (because Hazel and Augustus are just so quirky, and fun, and smart, and so much more than just sixteen and seventeen year old YA fiction characters, and so much more than just cancer victims), I definitely cried, and I finished the book wanting more but feeling, like Hazel with An Imperial Affliction, complete.
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
relaxing
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This book is written by the devil, I'm sure of it. Cried like a baby.