The Fault In Our Stars - Book Review

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Green, John. The Fault in Our Stars. Waterville, Me.: Thorndike, 2012. Print.

 

"Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death."

Sixteen year old Hazel is a teen struggling with the troubling effects of thyroid cancer which she was diagnosed with at age thirteen.  Living with cancer certainly hasn't been easy.  Hazel must carry around an oxygen tank at all times and now Hazel’s mom is having her attend a support group Hazel’s mother thinks will help Hazel become less depressed.

Hazel is reluctant to attend the support group, but finds herself going anyway. Hazel meets her friend Isaac at the support group, who will soon be getting surgery on his eyes that will leave him blind for the rest of his life.  Isaac has brought along his friend, Augustus, to the support group who had osteosarcoma and now has a prosthetic leg. Isaac introduces Hazel and Augustus and they are instantly friends. Little do they know that they will soon be on the adventure of a lifetime, but have many problems to face along the way.

The Fault In Our Stars, written by John Green, is a sensationally written novel filled with humor, tragedy, and most certainly suspense. However, it's not the normal kind of suspense. This kind of suspense is the type you didn't know the book had until you have rushed through every page. I was disappointed to meet the end of this amazing, New York Times, best-selling book.  I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a realistic fiction story.  It is simply amazing and John Green definitely hasn't failed to make another one of his spectacular, heart-stirring novels.