The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
318 pages
Boo ... I was not ready for this emotionally draining young adult book.
I've never read a John Green book. I will now read more. I LOVED all the Indianapolis-area shoutouts, it was like being part of the club that all readers aren't apart of.
Hazel has cancer. Augustus has another type of cancer. Obviously this cannot be good for my emotions. Anyway, I loved all the characters in this book, especially Isaac, their newly blind friend. I loved all the small actions and characteristics that made the kids so relatable -- the hours watching America's Next Top Model reruns, the boys continually playing the same shoot-em-up video game to pass the time, Hazel's obsession with a book. I know people my age and younger who do all of these things all the time.
Ugh. I loved and hated this book. I liked it in the way that I loved The Spectacular Now and Perks of Being a Wallflower -- it truly gutted me and I will probably think about it for months on end. Young adult fiction is alive and well!!
Next up: A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty by Joshilyn Jackson (hoping there is no cancer in this one ..)
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