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3.99 AVERAGE
3.99 AVERAGE
The Fault in Our Stars does not fall short of the usual emotional roller coaster John Green sends his readers on. This novel allows us to experience love, pain, hope, and breathtaking journeys through the eyes of the main character, Hazel Grace Lancaster.
Hazel Grace is the 16 year old narrator throughout the story. Hazel was diagnosed at age thirteen with a terminal form of thyroid cancer that has since spread to her lungs. Throughout the story, Hazel uses the term, “grenade” ever so often. She fears becoming too attached to people because she knows her death will be like a grenade. It will be a massive explosion and ultimately affect everyone around her. The way Hazel thinks and acts really impacts the reader. She teaches people to put their guard up. That is until heartthrob Augustus Waters comes along.
Augustus Waters is a sixteen-year-old with osteosarcoma, who falls head-over-heels in love with Hazel. The reader can tell right away their journey will be an epic love story. Augustus’ romantic gestures make the reader deeply and emotionally attached to him. Throughout the story, Hazel and Augustus realize they will be each others first and last love and they couldn't be more than okay with that.
One of the most important lessons I got out of this book is that pain is inevitable. Everyone is doomed to die, and all of the people around you will be put through unimaginable pain. Since death is certain, no one can avoid the pain of loosing someone you care about. This is not always a bad thing. When you die and make someone experience indescribable pain thats how you know that you matter enough. Thats how you know you influenced this persons life enough to make them hurt in such ways. Hazel reads, “Without pain, we couldn't know joy.” That is one of the major things to take out of this novel, along with many more. I would recommend this book to anyone who is a sucker for tragic love stories. Also, anyone who can handle disappointment, heartache, and jealousy.
Hazel Grace is the 16 year old narrator throughout the story. Hazel was diagnosed at age thirteen with a terminal form of thyroid cancer that has since spread to her lungs. Throughout the story, Hazel uses the term, “grenade” ever so often. She fears becoming too attached to people because she knows her death will be like a grenade. It will be a massive explosion and ultimately affect everyone around her. The way Hazel thinks and acts really impacts the reader. She teaches people to put their guard up. That is until heartthrob Augustus Waters comes along.
Augustus Waters is a sixteen-year-old with osteosarcoma, who falls head-over-heels in love with Hazel. The reader can tell right away their journey will be an epic love story. Augustus’ romantic gestures make the reader deeply and emotionally attached to him. Throughout the story, Hazel and Augustus realize they will be each others first and last love and they couldn't be more than okay with that.
One of the most important lessons I got out of this book is that pain is inevitable. Everyone is doomed to die, and all of the people around you will be put through unimaginable pain. Since death is certain, no one can avoid the pain of loosing someone you care about. This is not always a bad thing. When you die and make someone experience indescribable pain thats how you know that you matter enough. Thats how you know you influenced this persons life enough to make them hurt in such ways. Hazel reads, “Without pain, we couldn't know joy.” That is one of the major things to take out of this novel, along with many more. I would recommend this book to anyone who is a sucker for tragic love stories. Also, anyone who can handle disappointment, heartache, and jealousy.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcoholism, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content
Minor: Vomit
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
The book is unarguably beautiful but what is more beautiful is the untrained idea of death that is portrayed. Make no mistake this book is first and foremost about death and death alone, it talks of no survivors nor of martyrs. It takes of death as is. It talks of death as not having neither a prequel nor an epilogue bit one that is abrupt and harkens in the midst of life. It talks of that death that is quick, comes unannounced and interrupts life in it's track. Beautiful and realistic.
This book is a crier, it's a book on cancer and it odd meant to be a crier. It touches you and leaves in it's wake a mark. It talks of a life in the verge of collapse and the struggle to be alive. It is the story of Hazel and Augustus and their unlikely romance but it's not entirely a love story. It talks of their struggle with cancer but it's not a cancer book. It tasks of their family and the living and the subtle relationship they hold with the dying, their agony, their helplessness and their devastation but it's not just about it either. This book is about death and about dying and never about living.
It paints one of the best portrait of death i have read. This story of a star crossed cancer carrying couple and their enthrall eventual death. Thankfully the author does give the user some reprieve and doesn't abruptly stops his book like in the end of An Imperial Affliction by Houtten a frictional book but still it trails of in the midst but not before closure is delivered.
I rate this a four for all the buckets it filled with my tears and for the beautiful panorama of death it inscribes.
This book is a crier, it's a book on cancer and it odd meant to be a crier. It touches you and leaves in it's wake a mark. It talks of a life in the verge of collapse and the struggle to be alive. It is the story of Hazel and Augustus and their unlikely romance but it's not entirely a love story. It talks of their struggle with cancer but it's not a cancer book. It tasks of their family and the living and the subtle relationship they hold with the dying, their agony, their helplessness and their devastation but it's not just about it either. This book is about death and about dying and never about living.
It paints one of the best portrait of death i have read. This story of a star crossed cancer carrying couple and their enthrall eventual death. Thankfully the author does give the user some reprieve and doesn't abruptly stops his book like in the end of An Imperial Affliction by Houtten a frictional book but still it trails of in the midst but not before closure is delivered.
I rate this a four for all the buckets it filled with my tears and for the beautiful panorama of death it inscribes.
So much cringe. I still cried a little at the end though, and I knew the ending already, so I guess either I'm a sook or he does pathos well.
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
sad... ok mostly happy... but then..... sad
Reread.... twice as sad... you can see all of the nuances to the characters more clearly...
another think i noticed is it combines aspects from all of his other books... read them all successively and you will start to see connections....
Reread.... twice as sad... you can see all of the nuances to the characters more clearly...
another think i noticed is it combines aspects from all of his other books... read them all successively and you will start to see connections....
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
medium-paced