The Fault in Our Stars

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Captivating and beautifully written. All the reviews about it being painfully sad are true, but it is worth it, well worth it.

I cried... that's all I have to say.

Loved this - beautiful story even through the pain, for me it lived up to the hype!

Oh my. I laughed and I cried, and I'm pretty sure I've never encountered a more honest and heartbreaking tale. These teens have not died; fiction has brought them to life, and they are real. An incredibly powerful story of hope and love and loss, and gain. Because it's all about what they gained, in the end - each other.

Oh what to say about this book...... I can not tell you how much I enjoyed this. I loved the narration, getting inside Hazel's head. Too many books that have dealt with this subject are told from outside the situations, from a family member or observer. John Green takes you into not the suffering but the emotional thoughts and fears.

I couldn't help but root for these characters and John Green's storytelling helps you to understand how a split moment can change everything. This book is about living in the best way you know how and it shows you the reality and ugliness of how some people are treated differently because we don't understand the issues at hand.

I feel as though my heart has just been ripped from my chest. I struggled to read the last several chapters as my tears were blurring my vision. This is truly beautiful literature which I feel I will never forget. It has nestled itself into my soul and there it shall remain. It is a heartbreakingly beautiful novel.

The fault in our stars is a good book

but I hated it when Gus dies. It made me cry really badly.

The humor and yet reality of the experiences that Hazel has really bring the book together. Thank you John Green for opening a new perspective for all of your readers! It was beautiful.

I knew I would give this book five stars when I read the author's note: "Neither novels nor their readers benefit from attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species."

THIS. THIS RIGHT HERE.

Having won me over before the story even began, Green continued on to create a series of brilliant, heartbreaking, funny, real characters who struggle with the biggest ideas: love, death, the universe, everything. Hazel, Gus, and Isaac are cancer kids who would happily burn every Nicholas Sparks book ever written. They navigate their illnesses with an almost alarming practicality. This is a book about kids with cancer, but not one note of it is treacly or overwrought. Beautiful, funny, heartbreaking, and never self-important. One of the best love stories I've read all year.

Just don't read it anywhere you don't want to be witnessed ugly-crying.