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The Fault in Our Stars

John Green

3.99 AVERAGE


I'm in love with this book! Funny, smart and it will make you cry so don't forget some tissues in the second half of a book. Enjoy :)

jlene's review

5.0
challenging emotional funny hopeful sad medium-paced
adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: N/A
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

First of,I bought this book because of everyone telling me buy it so I went town with my family and bought it.I start read it straight away I was 100% interested to read it but my only problem is that I didn't cry at the end and I don't know?... But the story and the characters were great to read about I found Angustus to be really smart and abit of a know it all
OVERALL....Loved it but I wanted something more out of it
emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I really liked The Fault in Our Stars! It’s an odd experience reading this after so many years of hype for this book. The character development was good, the plot was good and it really captures real teens being put in unfair and awful situations. The little philosophy references made my little academic heart very happy too. I get now why this was so popular and I think it deserves it popularity. Definitely recommend.

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Funny and sad, such an emotional book. Exactly how life truly is. Loved it!

So you know how when there's a super popular book/movie/song out and somehow you completely missed the first wave of its popularity, so by the time you read/watch/hear it, it's been built up so much that it inevitably disappoints you?

The Fault in Our Stars is not that book.

About halfway through, right after the dinner, I almost didn't want to finish this book. I liked it too much. I didn't think there was any possible ending that would not disappoint me. I was loving the characters and the story so much, and I knew I would only get to read it without knowing the ending once. Knowing the ending changes how you read the rest of the book. You only get to experience the story with no idea what's going to happen once. I still enjoy re-reading books, because every time I read a book, even if I know how it ends, it's a little different. I get different things out of it. But you only get the first time once, and I was already mourning the fact that this book was going to end much sooner than I wanted it to.

So I was having a crisis about not wanting to finish the book, and I went home and did it anyways. And then I read the most perfect line, that summed everything up for me in that one moment. It wasn't even an original line, it was from a poem that I'd only even heard about because of another book. "So dawn goes down to day, the poet wrote. Nothing gold can stay." (pg 278)

I'm sure that I will read this book many more times in my life. And I'm sure that each time, there will be a different line that stands out to me. But this time, the first time, I can never get it back again. Nothing gold can stay.

deeply emotional

This book is sad.
I knew it was going to be sad, but it wasn't sad in the way I thought it was going to be sad... so it was a shocking sad?
Which somehow made it sadder.

This could have been a 5 star book, but there were certain parts that made me cringe a little.
But all in all it was a very entertaining (while sad) book. 


Amazing! I would read this over and over and over. This book is worth every penny and every cent of time. Please make time for this book. It is beautiful.