During the summer, I decided to read The Fault in Our Stars by John Green after all the positive reviews I've read and heard about.
I was surprised that it exceeded my expectations.
The Fault in Our Stars is about a 16-year-old cancer patient named Hazel Grace Lancaster who ends up falling in love with a boy she meets at her support group.
Although cancer is painful to read about and not something many people talk about, Green does an exceptional job of creating a story that makes readers laugh and smile, all while being witty.
Nonetheless, there are still moments of sadness.
I believe this is a part of what makes John Green an incredible writer.
He chooses a difficult topic to write about but turns it into something relatable without blurring the harsh reality of cancer and the effects it has on its victims.
"'Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you,'" he writes on page 286.
He captures the very essence of a cancer patient in 313 pages - how she thinks, how she acts and how she dreams - and turns her character into something very real.
The Fault in Our Stars was written by John Green and published in 2012.
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