Recently, I read the most amazing book called 'The Fault in Our Stars' by a really great author called John Green. I was given the book for christmas after saying that I wanted to read it for quite some time. I had heard nothing but good things about the book, and so many people recommended it to me, so I decided that it was time I read it too.
It was just so genuine and heart-warming and also very uncliched which I really liked. The basic idea of the story it about a 16 year old girl called Hazel who has very serious lung Cancer and is battling it and I guess you could say, slowly dying. It is very very sad in that way because it deals with the idea of Cancer which is such a true reality, and so at parts it was incredibly sad. But basically she meets this super charming guy called Gus (who has been in remission for a year or two) who kind of changes everything for her, and the book is a story of her life, their relationship, that type of thing. But it is just written in such a way that is so original. When I started the book I was thinking that it would basically just be a story about Hazel dying, but whether or not she dies (I',m not giving any spoliers), its not about that and in the last 100 pages I was literally left shocked from so many unexpected little twists that make the story.
So please read it! I am a terrible reader, I read so slowly and I don't handle very difficult books well, but this is actually an easy read despite its great plot, and I could never put it down. I made it one of my new year's resolutions to read more, so this was my first book for the year, and I just loved it!
I have also just bought a book by John Green again called Looking for Alaska, because I loved his writing so much and I've heard it's a great book. So if I enjoy it as much as this one, maybe I'll post on that too.
Also, the movie is coming out in June, so that's something to look forward to too.
