Hello,
Can I start off by saying I read this book really
quickly, I couldn’t put it down! Like Januarys book in the book club, The fault
in our stars is a book I would have walked past and never would have thought to
pick it up. I am so glad I’ve decided to join in on this reading as I am discovering
I like a lot of different genres than I thought I did!
I know last month’s review I posted it later on in the
month in the blog, but because I finished this book so quickly, I thought I had
to post about it now or I would forget quite a lot of the story by the time it
came to the end of the month. Also the fact that I am already racing through my
second book of the month already, so I don’t want to end up getting mixed up
with the stories!
Firstly I would like to start with how beautiful this
book was, I know it’s an odd way to describe it. Here is an excerpt from Wikipedia
of the book:
Please remember this will be a spoiler alert
post!
Augustus is by far my favourite character in this book.
The relationships he has with all of the characters right up til the end is
brilliant. Even right up until the end before he died he was still so positive and
remembered that life regardless of how bad it had become, was still worth
living. His love for Hazel (the main character) is amazing, love like that just
doesn’t seem to exist at all nowadays.
Both characters are both terminally ill, Hazel having
cancer in her lungs and Augustus “Gus” having it starting off his leg, getting
the all clear then after they have went to Amsterdam lets Hazel know that he
now has it all in his body.
It starts off with the main characters meeting each other
in the Cancer support group, Gus takes an interest in Hazel and they start
talking and hit it off. Issac Gus’s best friend is also a member of the support
group who has lost one of his eyes to cancer, but is due to have the other eye
removed due to the cancer having spread. The way all three characters interact
together is delightful, their conversations are full of majestic humour and
they always try to look on the positive side of things. Even when Issac’s “Always”
girlfriend dumps him just before he becomes 100% blind!
Hazel and Gus spend a lot of time together and become an
item. They both share their favourite books with each other. Hazels book AIA
for short becomes quite a big thing in the book, as they actually end up
travelling to Amsterdam to meet the author to ask a lot of questions that both
Hazel and Gus “need” to have answers to.
A few people that knew I was reading this book said that
they cried during it. To be honest I didn’t cry as I don’t tend to cry when
reading books or watching sad films, but this book was sad near the end when
Gus died. I knew deep down that either Hazel or Gus were going to die as the
author John Green really made you begin to love this characters, I was really
surprised when it was Gus. But then when I thought about it, it wouldn’t have
been Hazel as she was the voice of the book. I did however think that the book
might have stopped mid sentence like AIA, I’m really glad it didn’t or I would
be left with so many questions and would have to stalk John Green!
All in all I really enjoyed this book a lot, so much so
that straight after I finished the book I then went and downloaded all of John
Greens other four novels, which are on my to read list for this year now!
Are you taking part in the ABM book club? What are your
thoughts on the Fault in our stars?
Thank you for reading
Katy
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