Helpful Score: 1
THE FAULT IN OUR STARS was the July 2013 pick in my neighborhood book club.
With full disclosure, it wasn't written for me, so I was bored 75% of the time. While there were a few clever lines of dialogue from Hazel, her parents, or Gus, it was still a teenager's narration, complete with extended passages about video game gore, what we're wearing to go here, what we're wearing to go there, blah, blah, blah.
But then, there are also insightful passages about teenagers who are living with terminal cancer, how they relate to and see each other, how they see the world, their parents, and, most of all, how they see themselves.
There was a part at the end when an important author puts in an appearance, but it felt like that entire section should've been cut out. Plot-wise, it was like an annoying and distracting bull in a china shop.
I give it a C.
With full disclosure, it wasn't written for me, so I was bored 75% of the time. While there were a few clever lines of dialogue from Hazel, her parents, or Gus, it was still a teenager's narration, complete with extended passages about video game gore, what we're wearing to go here, what we're wearing to go there, blah, blah, blah.
But then, there are also insightful passages about teenagers who are living with terminal cancer, how they relate to and see each other, how they see the world, their parents, and, most of all, how they see themselves.
There was a part at the end when an important author puts in an appearance, but it felt like that entire section should've been cut out. Plot-wise, it was like an annoying and distracting bull in a china shop.
I give it a C.
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