The Fault in Our Stars

"I'm in love with you and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you."

I would not attempt to describe how I felt when I read those lines somewhere along the novel for I would fail miserably.

Diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer at 12, Hazel was prepared to die until, at 14, a medical miracle shrunk the tumours in her lungs... for now.

Two years post-miracle, sixteen-year-old Hazel is post-everything else, too; post-high school, post-friends and post-normalcy. And even though she could live for a long time (whatever that means), Hazel lives tethered to an oxygen tank, the tumours tenuously kept at bay with a constant chemical assault. 

Enter Augustus Waters. A match made at cancer kid support group, Augustus is gorgeous, in remission, and shockingly to her, interested in Hazel. Being with Augustus is both an unexpected destination and a long-needed journey, pushing Hazel to re-examine how sickness and health, life and death, will define her and the legacy that everyone leaves behind.

Bittersweet. That's the best word to describe this John Green creation. I thought I had totally gone bonkers for reading it. Many times I smiled like a fool, my heart was torn between melting and doing a gazillion back flips. And then the next thing I knew, my eyes were puffy and my nose was all snotty. There was also a lot of parts that made me laugh hysterically that I felt like Hazel when her lungs sucked at being lungs. And the weirdest thing was, the books had me felt all of those emotions in a single SENTENCE, no bullshitting. It was one helluva roller coaster ride! God, Mr. Green, the way you toy with your readers emotions, it's freaking crazy!!

I am a recent addition in the growing fan base of John Green. And do you know why I love his works? Why I ship him? Because he does not feed his readers crap. He always tells the truth about life no matter how harsh it is. In this novel, it's the most famous quote about life. The mother of all cliches. You have prolly heard it a million times: LIFE IS UNFAIR.

When something good happens, we expect that something bad will happen too. When we fall in love, we know that we will also have our heart broken at some point. We know that getting something we want doesn't mean we will get everything we wish for. We know that the people we love the most have the greatest weapon to hurt us. It's not being pessimistic. We just know that that's the way life is. It's full of irony. You can't have everything at once. You can't be happy all the time. Because, as John Green would have it, the world is not a wish-granting factory.

I would end this post now for I don't want to be a spoilsport. And honestly, I am running out of words to say because, 1) I am kinda sleepy and my mind is not working properly, and 2) I really suck at making reviews and I want to stop sucking right here and right now 'cause I am paranoid that I am annoying you. To end this, let me just say that The Fault in Our Stars is a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful novel and I really want you guys to read it. Fall in love and cry your heart out with Hazel Grace Lancaster and Augustus Waters. It is my favorite John Green novel alongside Paper Towns and it has the best set of characters John Green has ever made.