Book Review: The Fault in Our Stars

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

A very sweet story about love between two teens that have had to grow up due to contracting cancer. Two very different people brought together at a support group of all places and dealing with their feelings and diagnosis.
At times these teens seem pompous, spilling forth a large vocabulary and memorised sonnets, while the adults act like children barely using three syllable words.
Looking past this though the story is both touching and bitter sweet, although a little misogynist and pretentious.


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I wasn't as impressed with this book as I had hoped. Everyone hyped it so much, but perhaps that is what dragged it down for me. I was hoping/expecting something fantastic that hadn't been done before in indie movies, but it just didn't happen for me.

Partially I blame the fact that I don't watch a lot of Hollywood movies that are all happy endings, perhaps if I did this would have been more of a shock. Don't get me wrong there were tears, but they weren't streaming. I guess loosing 3 close relatives already to cancer also didn't help, been there done that and you're not even someone I know kinda thing.

Goodreads doesn't give you the option of half stars or this would probably be more of a 3.5 stars rating. Either way I doubt I would pick this book up again, but at least I can see why other people would.