Tuesday 17 January 2012

The Fault in Our Stars review

So I feel like a very bad blogger right now because I haven't been writing everyday like I said I would. You guys need to tell me when I miss a day. But to make up for it I am doing a review on John Green's new book, The Fault in Our Stars!
I'm going to try and not give away any spoilers but if I do it will be in the title.




Okay so first off, it is amazing and you should all read it! Just thought that I would get that out if the way first.

I adore the way that John writes, everything that I have read from him has been beautiful, insightful and endearing. They make you laugh, cry and fall in love; I have literally fallen in love with all of his main protagonists: Hazel Grace, Colin, Quentin, and Miles. You can't help but fall in love with them as he writes in such a way that you feel part of the story.

The Fault in Our Stars is no different, you fall in love with not only Hazel Grace but Augustus too. You follow both of their lives from when they first meet, and get to see their relationship grow. You see how both of their illnesses doesn't change their feelings for one another, even when they worsen.
I feel like you get an insight into what it must be like to live with cancer, to know that you might not live to be an adult, and it is heartbreaking. Reading it, I found, makes you think about what you take for granted, things like breathing, and you realize that your life could be worse.
What I found the most inspiring is how each character went on living as best as they could, not letting the cancer get to them. They couldn't live a completely normal life but they did their best, and I found that amazing. Yet it didn't make out that they were brave and heroic, it portrayed them as real, which I think is what I loved the most.

The novel was written in first person, from Hazel's perspective, and the fact that John could write so amazingly well, from a 16 year old girls perspective really shows just how great of a writer he is. I mean how many people can write from a perspective of the opposite sex? Never mind a teenager of the opposite sex!

I can't find any faults in this novel and I recommend it to everybody. Although I will warn you that you will cry, especially if you are emotional like me.

Have any of you got it yet? If you have and you have read it, let me know in the comments below what you thought of it. Sorry that this isn't the best review but I really didn't want to give any spoilers. If any of you have read it then we can discuss it in more detail.

Hopefully I will be back to my schedule of writting everyday tomorrow.

DFTBA

What I am listening to right now: The Highest and the greatest by Tim Hughes
Days until my January exams are over: 8

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