The Fault in Our Stars is not one of those books you read to escape, or learn from, or to live vicariously through the life of the protagonist. You reThe Fault in Our Stars is not one of those books you read to escape, or learn from, or to live vicariously through the life of the protagonist. You read it because makes you realize that the daily tragedies of living can be as beautiful as they are sad.
And so, The Fault in Our Stars is a love story that develops over oxygen tanks, chemotherapy and prostheses, in between video games and teenage shenanigans, during a Make-a-Wish vacation. But these things fall away as they work out their personal existential crises together. With love, these young people have the courage to master what many people far older can't do - to love each other through all of the things that are desperate and ugly about being sick, and positively grotesque about dying.
The characters and humor and grief and sheer beauty of this novel will stay with me for a long time....more