Goodreads Book Review – A Fault in Our Stars by John Green

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I picked up this book because, well, everyone’s talking about it. A few people said ‘you’ll love it’. You know how it is.

It took me less than 48 hours to read this book because I couldn’t bear to put it down. I loved the voice of Hazel Grace. I loved her deeply pragmatic view of life and death. Augustus Waters is just lovely too.

The author describes cancer with romanticizing the illness or the dying. The thing about ‘cancer perks’ mad...