It's about a sixteen years old girl called Hazel. She's got cancer in her lungs, and she knows she is going to die from it. The only thing that doctor's can do is help extending her life, and it has worked so far. Hazel usually just sits in her room, reads book, watches movies and TV shows, so her mom just decided that she was depressed, and sent her to a support group for kids with cancer. There she makes a friend, Isaac, who has cancer in the only eye he has left. And one day at support group Isaac brought his friend, Augustus Waters. Hazel and Augustus immediately becomes friends, and they both know that they probably will become more than friends. But Hazel don't want to hurt Augustus, knowing she might die soon, so she calls i off and tells him that they cannot be more than friends.
But as friends, they recommend books to each other, and Augustus starts reading An Imperial Affliction, by Peter Van Houten, by Hazel's recommendation. It's a book about a girl with cancer, and the book ends in the middle of a sentence, because she either dies or becomes to sick to continue telling the story. So Hazel and Gus finds Peter Van Houten's assistants e-mail and asks if Peter could by any chance answer their questions. He replies by saying that he cannot write anything down that someone could make into a sequel, but if they ever happen to walk by his house in Amsterdam they are more than welcomed to his home.
So after that Augustus decides to use his cancer-wish on a trip to Amsterdam, taking Hazel and her mother with him. When they are in Amsterdam they are having a good time, but when they decide to visit Peter Van Houten he's the rudest man they've ever met and they immediately get out of there, without the answers to their questions. Then they decides to go to Anne Frank's house instead. Although, there's no elevator in Anne Frank's house to they have to take the stairs. However, Hazel manages to take it to the top of Anne Frank's house with some help from Augustus and Van Houten's assistant, who payed for the visit. When they reached the top they kissed, and all the old people around them applauded.
On their last day in Amsterdam Augustus tells Hazel that his cancer, which was gone for fourteen months, has come back, and that there is nothing they can do about it except extending his life a little more. But he is going to die, very soon.
So as they got home Hazel and Isaac (who now is completely blind) holds a pre-funeral for Augustus so that he can attend his own funeral.
But then when he really died, at his real funeral, Peter Van Houten is there to tell Hazel something, but she doesn't want to listen to him. She hates him. Although they later find out that Augustus sent a letter to Peter in his last days, which Peter's former assistant sent back to Hazel, so she could see what he wrote his last days.
And that it basically the whole book. There are many details that I didn't write down in this little summary, but this was the most important parts for the story.
First of all, I LOVED the book, of all of my heart. I made me laugh and cry and everything in between. I especially loved when they egged Monica's house (not mentioned in the summary) and all of those funny little details. And the circle of virgins, God I loved that part. It was so simple, yet so creative of John Green.
The whole book is written from Hazel's perspective and John Green really nailed it when it comes to her thoughts and everything. It just really seemed like I was inside of her head the whole book, and I didn't even notice that it was a guy who had written the book.
The character's too, were fantastic and so real. Especially Augustus, he was just so funny and was the best romantic ever.
John Green, I love you!
There wasn't anything I didn't like, actually. Only one thing that maybe was a little weird, and that was that Hazel's mother so quickly agreed on letting her go to Amsterdam. And there also were some other stuff that felt a little rushed, but otherwise there was nothing wrong with the book.
And the ending, oh the ending was perfect. I do, Augustus. I do. I died a little on the inside. Or actually, I died A LOT on he inside. I cried for so long after finishing the book. And then I for some reason the decided to watch the movie only about half an hour after I finished it (p.s, I have seen the movie before) and then I cried even more.
I would give the book a 9/10. And I guess I'm giving it a nine out of ten only because I'm saving my ten for something else (you see what I did there? Hazel saved her 10 for something worse when they asked her in how much pain she was on a scale from one to ten). I recommend the book to anyone who likes realistic book and/or romantic books. Just please read it if you haven't.
I don't really know what else to say about the book, it was so freaking amazing. So I guess that's it. Okay?
Okay.
~ Filippa ~
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