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rose_darling02 's review for:
The Fault in Our Stars
by John Green
I must say that I couldn’t put this book down when I started reading, which is why I finished it in one sitting. I don’t read many books where the protagonist has cancer, and it was a new and interesting insight for me with seeing the world from Hazel’s eyes.
Why isn’t this a five star review? If this was an audiobook, it be John Green in my face talking way too fast with run on sentences. Maybe it’s because I’m a fast reader, but I noticed that many paragraphs were just one huge sentence. Maybe it reflects Hazel’s thought process, but it didn’t seem so.
It was frustrating to read at times to tell the truth. I kinda wished they took out the romance perspective because it would have been a much more coherent story between Hazel and Augustus. If anything it could been better developed. They literally had the “love at first sight” scenario, which didn’t make sense for the story or for the characters. Frankly the only character that I thought was written well was Issac, the friend that has his own struggles in the book.
But like I said, the book is easily addictive. It had its funny moments, it’s good and bad moments. I just honestly expected better from John Green. He is an intelligent man, and I loved “Looking for Alaska”. It was just frustrating that Hazel had the potential to be such a great protagonist, and yet her horribly developed romantic relationship with Augustus kind of took that away.
Why isn’t this a five star review? If this was an audiobook, it be John Green in my face talking way too fast with run on sentences. Maybe it’s because I’m a fast reader, but I noticed that many paragraphs were just one huge sentence. Maybe it reflects Hazel’s thought process, but it didn’t seem so.
It was frustrating to read at times to tell the truth. I kinda wished they took out the romance perspective because it would have been a much more coherent story between Hazel and Augustus. If anything it could been better developed. They literally had the “love at first sight” scenario, which didn’t make sense for the story or for the characters. Frankly the only character that I thought was written well was Issac, the friend that has his own struggles in the book.
But like I said, the book is easily addictive. It had its funny moments, it’s good and bad moments. I just honestly expected better from John Green. He is an intelligent man, and I loved “Looking for Alaska”. It was just frustrating that Hazel had the potential to be such a great protagonist, and yet her horribly developed romantic relationship with Augustus kind of took that away.