Book Review
Picture the following, a young woman with short brown hair, thin but pale skin, obsessed with an imperial affliction, an oxygen tank, and two parents who watch her every breath. She barely has enough friends to use all her fingers, and she’s mostly depressed and against anyone with opposite views. But now picture this, a young boy with short wavy hair, a cute smile, a prosthetic leg, and enough happiness to light up even the darkest room. It seems impossible to how these two could even cross paths, but in the well written non-fiction novel, The Fault In Our Stars, by John Green, explains all you would need to know.
The young soon to be lovers, Hazel Grace Lancaster and Augustus Waters, live contrary lives, but hold one thing in common, which they learn about in the heart of jesus created by their support group leader. Hazel lives a simple and sequenced lifestyle with her parents, books, and her favorite tv show, America’s Next Top Model. Whereas Gus lives a risky but outgoing and playful lifestyle, which mostly consumes of playing video games, skateboarding and hanging out with his best friend. Their love story begins at the support group, where Gus is only there to support his friend who has just become a member. As they both enter the door, Gus is overwhelmed by her quiet beauty, and does nothing else but stares. Only to make Hazel uncomfortable and act the only way she knows, awkward. After the meeting, Gus has the blowing eager to ask her on a date, allowing her to make a choice she has been able to. After she accepts, their relationship blossoms into their first love through spending time watching movies, picnic dates, exchanging favorite books, and revealing their cancer stories.
The novel is written only allowing you to get the view from Hazel, but even with just one perceptive, you can still realize how Gus’s is different when spoke upon. In the novel, it is shown that Gus is more open with his feelings rather than Hazel, who keeps things inside. Although, the reader is still able to fully develop and understand the characters meanings and choices, you can tell how this two have fallen in love incorporating each other's odd but alike lives together creating an everlasting young love that neither will forget. Like any other love story, there’s also a fault, and the fault was that Hazel didn’t want to end up breaking his heart, because she felt that if she ever were to die, he would never be able to overcome the loss and find someone new. “ You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.” In the following quote, it shows that Gus doesn’t care, because in the end all he cares about is creating just somewhat of an infinity with the girl has he fallen for.
John Green’s writing was impeccable, and keeps you from even slightly wanting to put the book down, because the story is so good it can switch from one thing to another keeping you captivated. It’s not too much of a book to make you cry, or laugh too hard, but it’s perfectly in the middle, allowing you the best of both worlds. I normally don’t read so much myself, but from the second my eyes crossed the first few words, it’s like the pages became my eyesight. My favorite part , like any other thing was the ending, but the ending also leaves you with an open interpretation. Both so young, both so hurt in their own ways, both with cancer, both finding each other to create something both have never imagined, to create a life that ends up in a way that hurts one, but keeps them forever in love.