The Fault in Our Stars Book Review

The Review

So I had originally set out to read Of Mice and Men, because it was Alex's most notable read. I want to read all of my closer friends' favorite books, but some of them are stubborn and don't have a favorite book. Well, one of them was Alex, and all he could tell me was that Of Mice and Men was a very good book. But now that I've introduced him to the lovely John Green he has fallen in love and named The Fault in Our Stars his favorite book evarrr.

After having read Green's newest novel, I still feel more resonance with Paper Towns. That is not to say I didn't like Stars. Stars is a fantastic novel with characters with which I could sympathize and fall in love with and try not to cry over around my co-workers.

Hazel Grace is dying slowly of cancer. She meets the wonderful Augustus Waters who is missing one of his legs from his own battle with cancer. You're told at the beginning of the novel that it is not if Hazel dies, but when. So going into the novel you already know things aren't going to end well. Stars portrays the tragedy that is life and that is cancer. It's all a side effect of dying, and love is a side effect of life.

The male author, John Green, creates a story from the perspective of a female protagonist who falls in love with a boy. Green somehow makes the reader, male or female, fall in love with Augustus (no homo).

Stars is fun and sad and romantic and happy. It's a portal to the world of cancer, or better yet, an insight into our own world in which we are all dying.

10/10

Quotes from The Fault in Our Stars

• "You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you.”
• “Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.” 
• “'Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them,' I said.
  
  'Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.'"
• “Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.”
• "The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
• "I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” 
• "My thoughts are stars I can't fathom into constellations."