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A review by keybladium
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
1.0
This book was really not for me. I don’t like hospital settings in general but I gave this book a chance but I still felt like it was lacking in so much and just wasn’t worth reading.
First of all, the main focus around the romance would’ve probably been more impactful and meaningful if they gave a reason for me to care. It all just happened out of nowhere, their first encounter they instantly both fell for eachother. There was no buildup nor any prior chemistry and it all just felt too forced and way to fast and I didn’t have any reason why I should find them a good couple or why the relationship was deserved other than they both have cancer.
The characters were all bland too and most of the time very inconsistent. The parents in particular acted so out of character at times and the whole plot around the author I found to be unsatisfying. The redemption he had was undone by the final chapter and the whole thing was just a very generic “don’t meet your heroes” subplot that I didn’t find interesting.
I found the ending itself to be very unsatisfactory since it just didn’t feel like an ending. I like open endings when they’re done effectively, but this just ended abruptly with a letter that didn’t have any impact or a thoughtful ending that made me reflect on the book.
The only character to get closure was Gus, making everyone else feel irrelevant after finishing the book. If the book was intended to focus on him more instead then it would’ve been more impactful if it ended after a certain event in the story instead of continuing with things that added no value and no closure for anyone else’s, it felt like a waste of time to read.
Whilst most of my reading experience was negative, I did enjoy a lot of the ideologies presented but that was pretty much all I enjoyed personally
First of all, the main focus around the romance would’ve probably been more impactful and meaningful if they gave a reason for me to care. It all just happened out of nowhere, their first encounter they instantly both fell for eachother. There was no buildup nor any prior chemistry and it all just felt too forced and way to fast and I didn’t have any reason why I should find them a good couple or why the relationship was deserved other than they both have cancer.
The characters were all bland too and most of the time very inconsistent. The parents in particular acted so out of character at times and the whole plot around the author I found to be unsatisfying. The redemption he had was undone by the final chapter and the whole thing was just a very generic “don’t meet your heroes” subplot that I didn’t find interesting.
I found the ending itself to be very unsatisfactory since it just didn’t feel like an ending. I like open endings when they’re done effectively, but this just ended abruptly with a letter that didn’t have any impact or a thoughtful ending that made me reflect on the book.
The only character to get closure was Gus, making everyone else feel irrelevant after finishing the book. If the book was intended to focus on him more instead then it would’ve been more impactful if it ended after a certain event in the story instead of continuing with things that added no value and no closure for anyone else’s, it felt like a waste of time to read.
Whilst most of my reading experience was negative, I did enjoy a lot of the ideologies presented but that was pretty much all I enjoyed personally