The Fault in our Stars by John Green Review

The Fault in our Stars by John Green

Characters:

Hazel Grace Lancaster

Augustus Waters

Isaac 

Peter Van Houten

Plot:

Hazel Grace is diagnosed with thyroid cancer. Because of her cancer, she is afraid of going out. One day, her mother told her to get up out of her bed and go to a support group to reduce her depression. Hazel Grace agreed to this and thought that she can actually meet friends and will never be bored again reading the same book "An Imperial Affliction". At the support group, Hazel Grace met this guy named Augustus Waters, who is suffering from bone cancer and is amputated on the left leg so that his cancer wont go all over his body. The two of them got closer, Hazel Grace dared Augustus to read her favorite book, An Imperial Affliction. He accepted the dare as well. After each session of the Support Group meeting, they will hang out. They play videos games at Augustus' house, there, Hazel met Isaac, Augustus' best friend. Isaac always wants to play a video game to a point that he can memorize the game, unluckily, his cancer can make him blind. Upon Augustus' finishing of the book, An Imperial Affliction, he asks Hazel Grace if Anna, the protagonist of the book, lived or died but then Hazel Grace said she didn't know the answer, so thinking about the answer, Augustus mailed the author Peter Van Houten who lives in Amsterdam. Peter never replied to their mails so they decided to just find them.. They know it is hard, specially to Hazel Grace because of her condition, needing oxygen tanks to travel and is heavy. Even though, they traveled to Amsterdam. They forced Peter to answer them but he never answered even though they already gone to his place. after their journey, Augustus died, then Peter mailed Hazel about Augustus and the ending of the An Imperial Affliction.

Review:

The Fault In Our Stars is not a new story for me because it is relate able, teen agers with sickness/ suffering from disease can have another chance, to love, etc. What I really loved about the book is the travel around Amsterdam, the date in the canal tunnel, the floating restaurants, etc. because it made me wonder what it is around the world without leaving my house at all. I know that it is never an happy ending since both of them is sick, suffering from cancer and any moment, one can die. What i hate is the ending because it is an open ending because the readers never know what it really is, did Hazel died? Is she alive? What is it? I'm thinking that this book should at least have another book, a sequel or another chapter for us readers just to understand what it is really that happened to her.