“The Fault in Our Stars” – A Heartily Review
A Story That Stays With You Long After the Last Page! I don’t usually go looking for books that revolve around illness. Especially not ones that involve teenagers fighting cancer. I know it’s real, I know it matters, but when I pick up a novel, I’m usually craving an escape, not a reminder of how fragile life can be. So believe me when I say The Fault in Our Stars caught me off guard in the best possible way. From the first chapter, there’s something different about it. John Green doesn’t waste time sugarcoating anything. He doesn’t romanticize sickness. He doesn’t try to make you feel sorry for Hazel, the main character, who’s living with stage 4 thyroid cancer. Instead, he gives her a voice so honest, so dryly funny, so unapologetically real , that you find yourself listening closely. Not out of pity, but because she has something to say. And wow, does she ever. Hazel isn’t your average teenage narrator. She’s not bubbly. She’s not overly cynical eith...