Title of Book: Fault in Our Stars
Author: John Green
# of Pages 336
Star Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
Why This Book has Value: The choice of narration is amazing John Green wrote it as Hazel Grace telling you her story. Hazel is a teenager with thyroid cancer who is trying to enjoy her time while she's alive even though she's moody like a normal teenager and on top of that is trying to beat cancer, she has a lot going on. Her mother makes her go to a support group to help terminally ill kids she dreads it at first but then happens to meet Gus a boy that her friend Isaac brought that is just now cancer free. Gus immediately shows his attraction towards Hazel and say to her one of my favorite quotes from the book "Because you're beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.” I think that's very important in showing that you can be strong no matter the odds and just enjoy and live life. Moving on through out the book Hazel and Gus get very close spending most days together and falling in love. They fall so madly in love in such a small amount of time Gus even gives up his "wish" from the Make a Wish foundation and Gives it to Hazel so she can meet the author of her favorite book. When they get there they have the time of their lives, but when they meet Van Houten hes is not what they expected; hes a lazy no good slob who is just about the rudest person ever. They don't let him ruin their trip though. This book is fantastic because I feel like he perfectly portrays what it's like to be a cancer patient and you get to look at the world through a new pair of eyes.
I also read the book, The Fault in our Stars, and I thought that the book portrayed that it was very important to live every day like it was your last and I feel that Augustus did that very well. What do you think the books main theme was?
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