The Fault in Our Stars

by John Green

However quick this read may have been, I cannot say that I actually really liked reading it. I was ready to give up, actually, when I was about a third into reading. Mostly, I continued because it was only another 200 pages or so and I just wanted to get it out of the way. I have been to dismissive of book lately, putting away a few after barely starting them, so I needed to finish one I found merely mediocre, for once.

I did not like Augustus. He just seemed so pretentious. That was my main issue with it. Hazel was fine. Sure, she was cynical and a bit of a smart ass, but at least she felt like a real person. Gus, however, I just wanted to smack over the head every time he would call her Hazel Grace (which was, like, every time except for that final confused message). There was a lot of eye rolling on my part. I only warmed toward him when he was dying, because the character started to get more like a real person, somehow.

Overall, a decent enough read. Surely head and shoulders above most other YA novels.

5/10