Wednesday, September 26, 2012

"The Fault In Our Stars"

As with many books geared towards teenagers, one may easily push "The Fault in Our Stars" aside, thinking it no better then some vampire novel or other cheesy love story. This book is unlike most, written by youtuber/vlogbrother John Green,  as it deserves to be looked into. Any reader of this book will be pleasantly surprised that it isn't full of mindless teenage girl babble and drooling over a boy. Now in the hopes that you will decide to read this amazing book for yourself I will try to elaborate on the intricacies of its greatness without giving away a single spoiler.
"The Fault in Our Stars" in short, is a love story about a girl, Hazel, with cancer and a boy, Augustus who once had it. Like all teenage novels they eventually fall in love but with Hazel's confidence and Augustus's philosophical outlook on life they make for an interesting couple. In this book author John Green ultimately paints a picture of the life of a cancer kid without sugar coating it in the least bit. To put it simple Hazel knows that cancer sucks, and there's no inspirational quote that will make her think otherwise no matter how much her Cancer Kid Support Group councilor tells her so. "The Fault in Our Stars" will keep you on your toes the whole time, this is one teen novel I can say has not a single cliche and is truly great.
Maybe I'm bias because I'm a huge John Green fan and have read every one of his books but if you don't believe me maybe you can believe the world as it is a #1 NY Times Best Seller. This book will change your outlook on life or at least make you stop and think. I highly recommend you read it as soon as possible. Do it before the movie comes out since everyone knows the book is always better anyways.

So as a teaser I'll leave you with this quote.
“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.” ― John GreenThe Fault in Our Stars