Cancer. It doesn't even sound nice on the tongue. Cancer. The deaths and pain it causes just from living itself.

Hazel Grace will soon be joining that list of deceased that, just by growing like a young child, cancer has slaughtered. Still young cancer is growing ever more powerful than our human defensive system and our cocktail of medicines, but this isn't a cancer book: this is about Hazel Grace.

Diagnosed at the age of 13 with stage 4 thyroid cancer, Hazel knew it would all just stop for her at some point and she would leave everyone she left behind hurt, so she rarely makes friends.

Hazel is pushed to socialise and make friends so she joins a small group of children living with cancer. That is when a boy named Augustus Waters walks into her small world. A small world that's about to get bigger.

The Fault in Our Stars is about two people who, although they cannot be together long because of their horrible fates, still enjoy their own little world where they are, if only for a short amount of time, together.

It is not a romance or a cancer story, it is almost its own type of story told in a warm, talkative style.

There may be cheesy off-putting parts but they can easily be overlooked by the almost poetic way of writing that, if done wrong, could have turned it into a boring story.

The delicately-crafted characters make wrong and right decisions natural to human nature, unlike your stereotypical heroes. The speech is welcoming and chatty. I think the use of diction from the author was just perfect and didn't leave you totally baffled, but instead gave the simplicity of the story a certain justice. It didn't drag on and leave you bored either, it was just right.

Although this was a sad story that left me thinking I'd read it wrong somehow and it can't be, it had an almost hopeful ending. I was glad because I like happy endings and who are more deserving of it than the characters in The Fault in Our Stars?

To draw my review to a close: although nothing is perfect, if you imagine perfection, this is the closest thing to that, more than anything else. Even if it kills you to pick up this book I think you owe it to perfection just to have a quick peek.

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