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Book Review of The Fault in Our Stars

The Fault in Our Stars
The Fault in Our Stars
Author: John Green
Genre: Teen & Young Adult
Book Type: Hardcover
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THIS REVIEW CONTAINS A SPOILER

I read this book like you watch a surgery documentary. All at once and hoping the end comes soon.

Thank you, Mr. Green, for giving the world such an amazingly interesting character like Hazel and then almost immediately erasing any bit of her identity for some terrible boy that is inherently unlikeable. Thank you for tricking us into thinking we might get a wonderful story about a girl who sees life for how it is but in the end only getting to see her through this awful boy's eyes. Thank you most especially for killing him so that the girl can never think about anything else again for the rest of her very short life. Wonderful, really. You've done the world a great service by erasing another possibly fantastic female character from the world and smothering her voice completely.