American Author

I recently enjoyed a book named The Fault in Our Stars written by an American Author, John Green. We open up the story to Hazel Grace, who is your average teenage girl except for the fact her body is filled with cancer and she has to carry around an oxygen tank because her “lungs suck at being lungs.” Hazel is forced to join the Cancer Kids Support Group where she meets the pristine, Augustus Waters. It’s your basic teenage love story; dying girl falls for hot boy. This book is sets out to make you cry .  I cried a lot during this film. While I had been strong, and not cried when reading the book, I was a puddle when actually faced with a book that deals with the mortality of our two romantic leads: Hazel (Woodley) and Gus (Elgort). I loved their chemistry, the sweetness of their exchanges, and the stakes set up by their illnesses and friendship.

It was sad to see some of the intimate and unique characteristics of the characters omitted from this adaptation, making the characters more one dimensional. Otherwise, I could still connect with the characters in this book even without making them so exceptional, mostly because Woodley and Elgort are so likable and sweet as the star crossed lovers. In this book it's easy to care about the stakes of their relationship, as well as their mortality. This book is unflinching in its characterization of people with cancer, and shows the true darkness of fighting something that you really have no control over. It's a rather sad, and unconventionally dire story, but one that is worth telling, and does justice to all those living with cancer and in love. This sugarcoated sad story novel is worth to buy. Bravo John Green! Bravo !