A story about life, death, the pain and the love

"The Fault in Our Stars" is a book that can not be quickly forgotten. Even during the reading I had to repeatedly make small breaks, because there is a so deeply true and you can not take it anymore. And very quickly you have to then again to pick up the book because you need to know how it goes - so unbearable it might may be. This does not mean that the story is not funny. But on the contrary. It's like life: "Electric ... filled with staccato bursts of humor and tragedy," as Jodi Picoult writes on the cover.

The focus is on the 16-year-old Hazel who is terminally ill with cancer and gets extended only by a drug their lives. Alive but she takes part does not work properly, it's not worth it. Until she meets Augustus. He has lost a leg to bone cancer and is again fully in life. Why he is interested in just for the sick Hazel, she understands the least. Because they really like him, but she hesitates. She knows that she has no future and will it do with her death and dying eventually hurt. But Augustus can not be shaken off ...

The story asks many questions to yourself and the reader: How to live in the clouds? How can you protect yourself from being forgotten? Makes life any meaning in the face of certain death? Can you live with pain? Is it worth the love? One would have to write a long essay to capture and process all the facets of the story. For this is not the right place. That's why I recommend everyone to read the book itself, to enjoy John Greens incredible talent for thinking and writing, to open up a new world, however painful they may be. It's worth it in any case.