The Fault In Our Stars

With everything John green already has done, makes you wonder how he could do more. He’s wrote four books, made 1,168 videos with his brother Hank Green on their VlogBrothers channel on YouTube.

The amazing story that is John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, is filled with passion, suspense and tragedy. 

The story centers around the two star-crossed lovers Hazel and Gus, but unlike most love stories it’s not full of drama or the guy trying to “woo” the girl. It’s more realistic yet still 100% romantic. Hazel was diagnosed with cancer when she was thirteen, but has managed to live with her disease thanks to an experimental drug. She is now sixteen, her parents think she needs help because she doesn’t go out much and usually stays home a lot. So they send her to a support group made for children living with cancer. Hazel finished high school early and has already started taking college classes. Isaac was a friend who also attended the support group.

Isaac lost his eye to cancer at a young age and has just learned that he must have the other eye removed. Isaac is close friends with Augustus "Gus" Waters, a former basketball player who lost his right leg to cancer, and is in remission. Hazel meets Augustus through Isaac at the support group. The two become good friends, and it soon is very obvious that The Fault in Our Stars is a love story. If you like love stories this one will keep you reading until the last page.  At the start it seems like a basic story of a girl but as you learn more about Hazel and Gus you get more and more enveloped in their story of love. Most books don’t amuse me, but this one was so good I finished it in four days.

The reason this book was so amazing is that John Green makes you feel like the characters are your best friends and your experiencing everything with them. It’s also amazing because the story is realistic, you can relate to the characters a lot more because of this.

Book Review by Ivy W.