I’d wager if you asked ten people who read ‘The Fault in Our Stars’, they’d say that they cried. It’s a common reaction to a book that is arguably John Green’s very best novel so far and a book that takes a delicate subject and talks about it with such honesty. So much so that it hurts. Just to make it plain: ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ is wonderful. Meet Hazel Grace Lancaster, a sixteen year old girl living with terminal Stage IV thyroid cancer is urged by her parents to attend a support group where she meets Augustus Waters, who lost his leg to osteosarcoma and is now in remission. Hazel is instantly charmed by his personality and they form a bond that’s planted by illness then blooms into something stronger and before you know it, these two become inseparable. One of the things I love most about the book is how it describes friendship and how important it is to hold onto that someone who means the most. Throughout the book, the two of them send countless texts and call each ot...
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