The Fault in our Stars- Jennifer Jensen

Title of Book: The Fault in our Stars
Author: John Green
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Star Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
Why This Book has Value:


The Fault in our Stars is a story about two teenaged lovers.  They met at a support group for cancer patients and become friends.  They bond over a book and a video game and their relationship flourishes. They begin just hanging out at each others houses and helping their friend, Isaac, who had lost his eyes to cancer.  Hazel, the main character gives Augustus the other main character a book to read and he gives her one as well.  He loves the book she gave him, An Imperial Affliction, and wants to meet the author. 
Hazel has already used her wish from the Genies, but Augustus had not.  He uses his wish to bring Hazel, her mother, and himself to Amsterdam where the author of the book resided and invited them.  They get there and to their surprise he was an alcoholic mess.  He made them leave and their idea of finding out all of the endings of the lives in the story they loved were ruined. 
They ended up going back to America with no answers but intense love for each other.  When they get back some things occur and if I told you the rest of the story, I would ruin the entire thing. I am going to leave you with that, and to find out what else happens in the book, you will have to read it yourself. 


This book has value for many reasons.  For one, the development of characters from the start to the finish were immense.  Second, the gripping and compelling plot pulls the reader in and doesn't let them go until they have finished the book.  Third, the theme is so powerful and extremely important for everyone, sick or not! Finally, the book has value because of the real world issues it puts into a book with only 313 pages. 
The development of characters from the start of the book to the finish was spectacular.  In the book, there is Hazel, a girl who has terminal cancer, afraid to get close to anyone because she thinks that she is a grenade.  She doesn't have many friends and doesn't open up to people.  Throughout the book, she gets closer and closer with Augustus and opens up to him and to the reader more.  She also grows as a person realizing that life has its ups and downs and that she needs to take them happily and move on and grow from the situation.  Augustus grows from a slick boy with sly words into a gentleman that has to face adversity.  Together they grow and without one another they wouldn't be where they were in the end of the book. 
For a book to have value, it has to first have a plot worth reading.  The plot of the Fault in our Stars was so extremely compelling that I could not put the book down.  I read it from cover to cover even though we were suppose to read it over four weeks.  The plot twists and turns and you never expect what is coming next which makes the story exciting and interesting.  It doesn't get boring because every page has something new.  They travel all over the world and experience things that you wish you could experience and are happy that you aren't experiencing. 
The theme of the book that I saw was to never take anything for granted.  You never know when your last good day will be so make every day worth living.  Also, you never know when your last day is so don't hold back from loving people, expressing yourself, and doing what makes you happy.  The book taught me to love myself and love everyone around me. 
Lastly, this book was about cancer.  Thousands if not millions of people deal with cancer every day or have someone close to them dealing with cancer.  It brought the reader into the life of a cancer patient from both terminal cancer to cancer that had already been treated.  It showed how they live and how they think and what really goes on with them.  It's very valuable because no one really knows what it is like unless you have it first hand and reading this book made it feel that way minus the pain and sickness. 
This book has so much value to it and every single person, boy, girl, young, old, black, white, everyone should read it because it will change you for the better. 


Jennifer Jensen