Captivating. Depressing. Provocative.
Located in Indiana, John Green's The Fault in Our Stars follows a young girl with terminal cancer. There's no longer the unanswered questions of how she will die, or if she will beat the cancer. It's just a question of when.
Hazel is seventeen and has terminal thyroid cancer, that has recently spread to her lungs. She's accepted that she is dying, but she's frustrated her parents are still holding out hope. Hazel soon meets Agustus Waters, a seventeen year old cancer survivor whom Hazel develops a very strong relationship with, and shows Hazel another perspective that she can view of her unavoidable demise.
Overall, The Fault in Our Stars is a wonderful book that touches even the deepest places of you heart, and plays upon unknown sympathies. A definite must read.
"Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is side effect of dying." (Page 3)
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