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The Fault in Our Stars
by John Green
My review might spoil the book a little but what do you expect? This is a book about cancer. Someone will die anyway.
At first I liked Hazel because of her sarcasm and I liked that she did not change as she fell in love with Augustus. But I think the love story was not necessary. When I think about the book I picture Hazel and Gus as friends and ignore all the kissing stuff. Nevertheless it did not bother me so much.
There were worse things than the love story. I hated the characters talking about "boy movies" and "girl movies" because there are no such things. The old-fashioned opinions the characters/the author sometimes had I did not like at all.
And there were too many metaphors in the dialogs. They made the book sometimes very exhausting to read.
Maybe you get a little melancholic when you know you are about to die...
The first half of the book I gave 4 stars but when the couple + Hazel's mom got to Amsterdam everything went down. I did not like how the author showed the Netherlands stereotyped. Maybe that is the reason why I did not like that part at all? I do not know.
But the only thing that saved the book for me there was the plot twist. Not something thrilling but something that was (at least for me) unexpected.
What I liked about the death was that there was no dramatic last goodbye. It made the scene feel real. You rarely get the chance to say goodbye.
Also I liked that the book did not end right after the death. Green gave a good closure.
Conclusion:
"You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice" (page 209)
Green chose the funny way to tell his sad story and I liked it. The book was better than expected and also worse because I did not think I would enjoy it but I also did not think I would be influenced by it (however I did not cry like a baby as predicted but sometimes I had to laugh).
Green might have overdone the dialogs between Hazel & Gus but the book overall was enjoyable.
Although I give the book 3 stars now I might read again. We'll see.
At first I liked Hazel because of her sarcasm and I liked that she did not change as she fell in love with Augustus. But I think the love story was not necessary. When I think about the book I picture Hazel and Gus as friends and ignore all the kissing stuff. Nevertheless it did not bother me so much.
There were worse things than the love story. I hated the characters talking about "boy movies" and "girl movies" because there are no such things. The old-fashioned opinions the characters/the author sometimes had I did not like at all.
And there were too many metaphors in the dialogs. They made the book sometimes very exhausting to read.
Maybe you get a little melancholic when you know you are about to die...
The first half of the book I gave 4 stars but when the couple + Hazel's mom got to Amsterdam everything went down. I did not like how the author showed the Netherlands stereotyped. Maybe that is the reason why I did not like that part at all? I do not know.
But the only thing that saved the book for me there was the plot twist. Not something thrilling but something that was (at least for me) unexpected.
Spoiler
Although it sounds morbid I liked that the one we believed would die was not the one to die in the end.What I liked about the death was that there was no dramatic last goodbye. It made the scene feel real. You rarely get the chance to say goodbye.
Also I liked that the book did not end right after the death. Green gave a good closure.
Conclusion:
"You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice" (page 209)
Green chose the funny way to tell his sad story and I liked it. The book was better than expected and also worse because I did not think I would enjoy it but I also did not think I would be influenced by it (however I did not cry like a baby as predicted but sometimes I had to laugh).
Green might have overdone the dialogs between Hazel & Gus but the book overall was enjoyable.
Although I give the book 3 stars now I might read again. We'll see.