“The Fault in Our Stars” is yet another New York Times best selling book written by John Green. In a video on his YouTube channel, the Vlogbrothers, Green read the first two chapters of this book. I was burning with anticipation from the moment I watched this video.

Hazel is a 16-year-old girl with stage IV thyroid cancer and has been nothing but terminal since she was first diagnosed. She realizes she is not going to get much better, but she is on a medication that keeps the tumors minimal. Her mom insists on Hazel being in a local support group, as Hazel has completely isolated herself from almost everyone, except for her parents. One day at a support group meeting she meets Augustus Waters, who also has cancer. He mainly shows up for moral support of Isaac, a mutual friend of Hazel and Augustus. Augustus immediately takes interest in Hazel, and it sets up an impeccable love story for the plot. I felt myself being attached to the characters, as though I needed to know every detail of their imaginary lives. Neither Hazel nor Augustus had stereotypical lives for kids with cancer. In fact, Augustus was full of surprises as Hazel very steadily became one of his closest friends.

If there were to be a fault in this nearly flawless story, it would be that the 17-year-old characters were given extremely sophisticated, not to mention poetic, vocabulary. Most of the dialogue in this book is metaphorical and quotable, but then John Green inserts words that I wasn’t aware that teenagers used.

Regardless of any negative comments I could give this book, John Green is a phenomenal writer. He’s great at giving readers an amazing mixture of sarcastic humor and tragic, heartbreaking moments. When I walk down the hallway holding this book, several people tell me how amazing it is, or how they cried hysterically at the end.

“The Fault in Our Stars” is most definitely filled with devastation: cancer, death, thoughts of afterlife and a perspective of a girl who describes what it feels like to know that she is dying. This book may not be suitable for people who have issues reading about those things, but otherwise this book is breathtakingly amazing. I give this book 4 out of 5 talons.