BOOK REVIEW: The Fault In Our Stars by John Green

Title: The Fault In Our Stars
Author: John Green
Publication Date: 10th January 2012
Pages: 313 

  

Summary...

"Diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer at 13, Hazel was prepared to die until, at 14, a medical miracle shrunk the tumours in her lungs... for now.

Two years post-miracle, sixteen-year-old Hazel is post-everything else, too; post-high school, post-friends and post-normalcy. And even though she could live for a long time (whatever that means), Hazel lives tethered to an oxygen tank, the tumours tenuously kept at bay with a constant chemical assault.

Enter Augustus Waters. A match made at cancer kid support group, Augustus is gorgeous, in remission, and shockingly to her, interested in Hazel. Being with Augustus is both an unexpected destination and a long-needed journey, pushing Hazel to re-examine how sickness and health, life and death, will define her and the legacy that everyone leaves behind."

My Thoughts...(are stars I cannot fathom into constellations)...

 

Five stars is not enough to rate The Fault In Our Stars. I want to rate it FIVE MILLION!!!

I had been intending to read this for ages, having heard countless people declaring how amazing it was, how this was ‘John Green at his best.’ Now, having read it, I don’t know why on earth I didn’t pick this up sooner.

This book is AMAZING. Seriously. Believe everyone who tells you so – and everyone who has read it will tell you so – because it is. Just 18 pages into the book and I had already fallen in love. If love at first sight (or word) exists, I have felt it in reading The Fault In Our Stars by John Green. You think I’m exaggerating. Just wait until you pick it up for yourself. You’ll see.

I feel like I should say something more meaningful, more substantial about this book, rather than just rambling on using colourful language and different ways to express how THOROUGHLY AWESOME this book is. But really, I feel almost as if it isn’t possible to put into words just how beautiful and amazing this book is...you have to read it yourself to feel it.

I never expected to fall in love with Augustus Waters but I did. I totally did. He is just such a funny, sweet, gorgeous, wonderful character. There are loads of other boys in books who can be described similarly, but the difference with Gus, and Hazel, actually, is that they are so real. You just feel like they are honestly real people and that makes them all the more wonderful. I now have a concrete answer to the question, “If you could meet any literary character, who would it be?” because I would answer, in a heartbeat, AUGUSTUS WATERS!!!!

Every time I just think about this book, my pulse rate starts to increase and my breathing starts to become quicker as I feel myself start to get somewhat over-excited...until I am jumping up and down, gesturing wildly with my hands and screaming at the top of my voice to anyone who deigns to listen (although everyone in my near vicinity will probably be doing their best to tray and tune me out!) about how FANTABUMAZINGLY AWESOME THIS BOOK IS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And how I love this book so much I just want to curl up in a corner with it and read it over and over again for the rest of my life!!! Ohmigosh I feel this spazzy attack of excitement coming on right now!!!!!!! 

(Excuse me while I leave the laptop for a moment and scream...)

(Okay. All good.)

I just don’t know how to convince you that this book is the most perfect book ever and every second you live without having read it is A SECOND OF YOUR LIFE WASTED. 

I really could enthuse about this book endlessly...but I don't want to waste your time because...WHY ARE YOU EVEN STILL READING THIS REVIEW YOU SHOULD BE IMMEDIATELY GOING OUT TO GET YOUR HANDS ON A COPY OF THIS BOOK BY ANY MEANS POSSIBLE AND READING IT NOW!!!

JUST GO AND READ THE BOOK. NOW.

(I mean it. *warning stare* I'm watching you.)