This book is so amazing. Gut wrenchingly beautiful and tragic, it's rawness and poignancy will haunt you. The characters are believable and likable. Green's ability to write dialogue and tell a story is phenomenal, especially considering it is told in the voice of a dying teenage girl, which he is neither.
The main character of this book is Hazel. A teenage girl who has had terminal cancer since she was 13. Thanks to a miraculous (and fictional) cancer drug, her tumors have stopped growing thus extending her "life". Hazel had resigned herself to a life of cancer treatments and minimal "real world" interactions, when low and behold, a new guy, Augustus Waters, attends her cancer kid support group. Augustus not only brings a new body to the group, but also a new season to Hazel's life. Augustus helps Hazel experience a life she never thought she would get the chance to experience, and we get the pleasure of going on the ride with them.
I strongly suggest this book make an appearance in your life. While the sadness I experienced through this book was immense, I am glad to have experienced it. Because as it says in the book, "That's the thing about pain...it demands to be felt."
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