Over the summer I read John Green's
The Fault in Our Stars. I chose this book because I wanted to read it before the movie came out, so I read it fairly quickly. If you haven't seen the movie or read the book already, its about a sixteen-year-old named Hazel Grace Lancaster who has thyroid cancer that has spread to her lungs. At the beginning of the book Hazel goes to a cancer support group and meets a boy named Augustus Waters, or Gus for short. Gus had previously had osteosarcoma, which caused him to lose a leg. As the book continued, Hazel and Gus became friends and then more. Hazel suggested her favorite book to Gus, which was written by a man who had moved to Amsterdam. The book ends in the middle of a sentence and Hazel wants to know the end. Gus suggests that Hazel uses her wish from the Genies, but she has already used it, so Gus uses his and they go to Amsterdam. Near the end of the trip Gus tells Hazel that his cancer has come back and is all over his body. The rest of the book goes through how life is once Gus can't do much on his own. At the end (SPOILER ALERT) Gus' cancer kills him.
I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys romantic novels, and doesn't mind sad endings. If I had to rate this book I would give it 4/5 stars because I'm not usually the type of person who likes to read sad endings. Overall I thought it was a fantastic book. The way John Green writes takes you directly into the story and you feel like you are with the characters. The feeling you get when Gus dies feels like you actually knew him, and that's part of the reason I love this book. The only thing that would have made it better, would have been a happy ending, but that's just not how life works.
