The Fault in Our Stars in MCLS Reading Challenge

Mar 12, 2012 Stephanie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: young-adult, favorites, reviewed, medical

This review is really going to be a love letter.

OMG, this book was phenomenal. I’ve had kind of a rough year, with a lot of big changes and heartbreak happening in my life, and I won’t lie, it’s really taken a toll on my reading and blogging. I’ve found it harder to connect with and enjoy books and blogging because my life has been in a bit of a disarray and this has really upset me… but anyways, this is all to say TFiOS made me feel that passion for reading again… FINALLY! While I was reading This review is really going to be a love letter.

OMG, this book was phenomenal. I’ve had kind of a rough year, with a lot of big changes and heartbreak happening in my life, and I won’t lie, it’s really taken a toll on my reading and blogging. I’ve found it harder to connect with and enjoy books and blogging because my life has been in a bit of a disarray and this has really upset me… but anyways, this is all to say TFiOS made me feel that passion for reading again… FINALLY! While I was reading it, I remembered why I loved reading so much and for the first time in months, I couldn’t put a book down. As soon as I finished it, I made my mother read it. This was my first JG book, but it will NOT be my last. I’ve been wanting to read him forever now, and I’m so glad I finally have.

Basically, John Green nailed it. How he so accurately captured the voice of a 16 year old female, I will never know, but he did, and it was awesome. Hazel’s character felt so real and her emotions, negativity, and outlook on life all seemed so dead on. Augustus was charming, sweet, witty... definitely book boyfriend vibes. I just LOVED these characters!

Gahhh emotions! Oh, the emotions I felt, the highs and lows, the laughs, the almost tears… I felt it all. I love a book that can make me feel and I FELT so much during this book. I was so connected to the story, and invested in their lives and it was Just. So. Beautiful… all of it, even the sadness. I love that John Green captured the realities of this illness, and that he never once sugarcoated it. We saw the nitty gritty and heard about all the nasty things having to do with cancer, BUT we also saw Hazel and Augustus for who they were as people, not just "cancer kids." He brought them to life, even if they didn’t always feel like they were living. I loved the things they learned, the lessons they taught each other, the way they changed each other’s lives… it was all so powerful, but still down to earth and realistic.

I just loved this book more than words and I’m sorry for the babble. All I can say is: READ THIS BOOK! READ IT NOW! ...more

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Feb 28, 2012 Claire Talbot rated it it was amazing

Shelves: teen

Wow. This book is so moving, and the characters so well portrayed, that I have to commend John Green on his research. "The Fault in Our Stars" is about two teens with cancer, Hazel and Augustus, that meet in a cancer support group. It is not a sappy, sugar coated "feel good" story with a superficial ending, but a realistic portrayal of what kids must face when diagnosed with this insidious disease. Parts were funny, parts were heartbreaking, and parts were hopeful and sweet. It gives you pause t ...more

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Jan 17, 2013 Lea Elizabeth Ludwig rated it really liked it

This is a very well written book. The only thing preventing me from giving it 5 stars was the sarcastic, edgy bantering back and forth between the characters. I was not crazy about that. I did enjoy seeing the 16 year old point of view. I thought a lot about Blake Cognata, a Fairport Senior who died of cancer while I was about 1/3 of the way through the story. I will probably think about this book for a long time.

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Apr 15, 2014 Katie rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Weirdly enough, I knew this book was popular but no one I know is reading it, which is a tragedy. The Fault in Our Stars is an in-your-face without being vulgar, kind of novel. Hazel Grace (and I cannot call her by just her first name) is a 16 year old that, thanks to the miracle of the made-up Phlanxaphin (sp?) will survive cancer, but never fully beat it. She meets and falls for August Waters, pretty basic right? Well yes, but you still need to read it anyway, these two have the deepest, stran ...more

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Mar 21, 2013 Amy Discenza rated it it was amazing

John Green never disappoints.

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Jan 14, 2014 Jennifer rated it it was amazing

This is easily one of the most heart-wrenching, honest books that I've read in a long time. A subject that touches a little too close to home, I still couldn't put it down and read it in one sitting! Makes me think differently about my life and what it means to be remembered and to "leave your mark." ...more

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