The Fault In Out Stars by John Green is a beautiful, albeit tragic, love story about two teenagers with cancer. Hazel Lankston has never been anything but terminal and, while she's not thrilled about it, she has accepted her eminent demise. But then meets Augustus Waters and her once isolated existence is thrown into a delicious uproar.
This is the tragic love story we should be teaching to our children. This is the Romeo and Juliet of our time. Two star-crossed lovers meet and fall in love, but they don't selfishly kill themselves because the universe won't let them be together. Instead they fight like hell to experience what they can and enjoy every day with each other because forever was not an option. There is a fault in their stars, not in them.
This is not the typical cancer story. It's not about survival, beating death or even young love. It is about appreciating and experiencing everything this world has to offer while we're here with the ability to appreciate and experience it.
Green wrote a novel that was so incredibly beautiful, I felt like I, personally, had been gifted with the amazing Augustus Waters, himself. The Fault In Our Stars was moving and funny, tragic and heartbreaking.
I went into this story knowing there was no chance of happily ever after. And don't get me wrong, I cried---hard---multiple times. But it was not what I was expecting. It was oh, so much more.
If you want a story that shines brighter because forever comes too soon, I highly recommend The Fault In Our Stars. As far as amazing romances go, John Green hit this one out of the park.
My rating: 10 out of 10.
(I don't rate them that high often, but lately I have been reading some extremely good books.)
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