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The Fault in Our Stars / John Green. 3.5 stars (reread)
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16-year old Hazel is fighting cancer and needs help to breathe via a machine. At a support group meeting (which bore Hazel to tears), she meets Gus. Gus is 17 and managed to fight off his cancer, though not without losing a leg first. This is their love story.
It was good, but I didn't find it anything special. I guess there was too much poetry and philosophy in it for my liking? I also didn't like Hazel's favourite author and could not, for the life of me, figure out why she liked that book so much! I wasn't surprised with how it turned out. What did surprise me is that I didn't cry. My favourite by John Green easily remains Will Grayson, Will Grayson.
2020 Review:
3.5 stars
Rating remains the same as the first time I read it, and my review could be pretty much the same. I listened to the audio this time and the narrator did a good job. I really wasn’t interested in the whole Peter Van Houten (author) storyline at all. Didn’t like the storyline, didn’t like the character. There was so much of that storyline in the book, unfortunately, that the book wasn’t great for me, either. I actually only remembered one thing from the first time I read it, and that was the beginning – how and where Hazel and Augustus met. Although part-way through, I either vaguely remembered, or just guessed (again) at how it might end.