Evelina Corcos 

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The Fault in Our Stars

By John Green

Over this summer my favorite book I read was The Fault in Our Stars. I know, typical right? But honestly this book is so amazing and heartbreaking, I couldn’t help myself, but I read it two times and had to write something on it. This book is so filled with emotion and during the book there are moments when you find yourself smiling and others where you find yourself bawling. Written my an amazing author John Green, who is also the author of Looking For Alaska, Let it Snow, and many more brilliant books.

The Fault in Our Stars is about two teenagers names Augustus and Hazel. Hazel was diagnosed with lung cancer when she was very young and Augustus had cancer in his leg. Augustus and Hazel met at a support group and talked ever since. After a several months, they become closer and Augustus decides to spend his wish on going to Amsterdam to meet Hazel’s favorite author accompanied by Hazel! They visit the author the 2nd day they’re in Amsterdam and he ends up being a drunk who is extremely rude. He makes fun of Hazel and Gus for having cancer and Hazel ends up cursing at him and his assistant apologizes to them and then quits. They then become friends with the assistant and go to the Anne Frank Museum together, where Hazel and Gus kiss for the first time. The day later Hazel and Gus are sitting on a bench near a river and Gus tells her that they found more cancer in him and that it spread through his whole body. When they get back he has Hazel and Issac (his good friend who lost his eyesight to cancer) prepare eulogies for his funeral since he knows he has a short time to live. They meet at a church and Hazel and Issac say their speeches. Hazel’s eulogy was absolutely heart wrenching. About a week later, Augustus dies. At his funeral the writer shows up. When the funeral ends and Hazel gets in her car, she starts sobbing. The writer opens the car for and sits down, and hands her a sheet of paper. He tells her to read it and she yells at him and throws it on the floor. He tells her that he was deeply sorry for his actions and that he was overwhelmed because his daughter died when she was seven of Leukemia. She tells him that she’s sorry but he needs to get out of her car. A couple days after, Issac asked her if she read the eulogy Gus wrote. She has no idea what he’s talking about, then runs to her car and picks up the paper. It’s the paper the writer gave her.

John Green by far is my favorite author ever. I also went to the premiere of the movie and met all of the actors. It was SO amazing seeing the book come to live by not only watching the movie, but meeting the actors, and they were so sweet and amazing. I decided to read this book because there was such a huge buzz over it and everyone seemed to love it. I had also read Looking For Alaska (also written by John Green) before hand so I knew that John was a great writer.