The Fault in Our Stars in YA and Beyond

Feb 28, 2012 Amanda Allman rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorite-books, books-read-in-2013

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Where do I even begin with this book? I was really excited, but at the same time a bit nervous, to begin reading this book. I was not prepared for an emotional roller coaster such as this one. Young love determined to blossom despite the nasty disease that should stop it.

Let’s start with Isaac because I honestly loved his character despite how “minor” he was. His whole being was determined to find true love despite the cards he was dealt in life; one could say he was blinded by the desire to hav Where do I even begin with this book? I was really excited, but at the same time a bit nervous, to begin reading this book. I was not prepared for an emotional roller coaster such as this one. Young love determined to blossom despite the nasty disease that should stop it.

Let’s start with Isaac because I honestly loved his character despite how “minor” he was. His whole being was determined to find true love despite the cards he was dealt in life; one could say he was blinded by the desire to have it (no pun intended). For a second he even thought he had until it was ripped from him like his remaining eye. He was more devastated over the loss of a girl more so than his own eye which allowed him to see the beauty of the world, but then again, his world was collapsing like any other teenage boy’s by losing who they thought was the love of their life so at that point, he was a normal boy without cancer.

Let’s move on to Hazel. At first, I didn’t care much for her. I really have no reason why I didn’t like her other than my own fear of bonding to this character and expecting her to die in the end and rip me to shreds like any other time a character dies that I like. By the middle though, I couldn't help but love and sympathize for Hazel. I really got upset over Peter’s treatment towards her even though he had lost a daughter that she reminded him of so much, it still didn't excuse his behavior. Hazel was very mature for her age and I hate that the cancer did that to her because it also made her apathetic towards life and I really wanted her to be happy especially after meeting Augustus but what did I expect reading a book about teenagers with cancer?

So that brings me to Augustus “Gus” Waters. The knight in shining armor in my opinion. A character you couldn’t help but adore and love especially when he gave up his Wish to fly his non-girlfriend, and later girlfriend, to Amsterdam to meet her favorite author. The boy that fought so hard to get her to fall in love with him while in remission to just have it all ripped from him by finding out that once again, he had to battle for life that he was destined to lose. Which he did lose and which broke me to pieces.

I never once expected it would be Augustus who died in the end, I always thought it was Hazel but John Green has a way of turning the tables on you and making me assume one thing and throws something else your way. But at the same time, I wouldn’t have it any other way. I didn’t want to read a book that was so… cliché. I wanted to read something a bit different and would surprise me and this definitely did. All in all, this is one of my favorite books now, I recommend it to everyone, and I have been touched in an indescribable way and it will never leave me.
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Apr 14, 2012 Nikki rated it it was amazing

Shelves: tear-jerkers

OMG there is no way I can write a review right now through this blur of tears.... Review coming soon!

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First off, I want to say I thought this book would be a little hard to read considering my niece is named Hazel and my aunt has breast cancer. But somehow John Green found a way to take this sad situation and turn it into witty charismatic love story with some amazing characters.
The book was filled with power and emotion. And not all the emotion was bad. Just like in life, there were som ...more

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Dec 21, 2012 Katie rated it it was amazing

Favorite Quote: "It occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again."

Once again John Green's writing amazed me. That above quote completely changed my thoughts about the future and how I'll probably never be satisfied completely with following my dreams or however my life is. Our nature seems to make always be selfish and yearn for more; I finally realized to not use t ...more

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Jan 20, 2013 Amrita Poptani rated it liked it

Shelves: did-not-see-that-coming, snorting-milk-out-of-my-nose-funny, overrated, be-ready-to-cry

Chocolates, broccoli and infinities. You know the short story 'The Leg of Lamb' by Roald Dahl? I had to read it for a class years ago and when I came back amused, horrified and so very confused, my literature teacher told us that the story is what people would call black humor - and that is what this story felt like for me. I just finished it, i'm raw out of it and I'm not sure if I want to flip back to the parts that made me laugh or the parts that made me almost tear and go "you've got to be k ...more

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