The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

Terminally ill teenagers falling in love.

Hazel is totally depressed and dying. She sits in the meeting for dying teenagers - in “the literal heart of Jesus” - listening to them talk about their illnesses, their parents and how generally crap life is for them right now but that they need to be grateful for the things they do have. She carries her oxygen tank to and from the meetings and the rest of the time she watches TV.

It’s a relief when Gus walks in to one of those meetings, who’s funny and healthy and totally into her. Their conversations are witty as they fall helplessly and tragically in love surrounded by disease, disability and death.

You will definitely cry and you will definitely chuckle, but you might not look at terminally ill people the same way again.

“When you’re as charming and physically attractive as myself, it’s easy enough to win over people’s you meet. But getting strangers to love you…now, that’s the trick.”

A #comingofage story about #cancer #disability #dealingwithdeath #heartbreak.

Video review here.