After my first foray into John Green’s novels (I know, stone me later) I have to say I am in love. In this book, we first meet Hazel, a sixteen-year-old girl with lung cancer. We learn of how she has been fighting cancer for years, all with the knowledge that she won’t ever be 100% healthy again. She starts questioning her existence, worrying about her parents, and trying to be a burden to as few people as possible.
Enter Augustus Waters: the attractive, no make that hot, boy who has won his battle with cancer and is enthralled by Hazel. As they become at first friends and then even more, they learn that love has healed them more than chemo ever could, but also the sad truth that life is not a wish-granting machine.
I will have to say that I balled my eyes out, in a good way, and will probably be reading this book again very soon.
AMAZING!!!
We have signed copies, too!
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, Penguin: January 2012.
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