Sitting in World History teacher Jessica Pullen’s classroom, an episode of Crash Course World History appears on the screen. A man with deep brown eyes and hair that looks remarkably similar to one who put a finger in an electrical socket rolls onto the screen. This is John Green, the author of six Young-Adult novels and co-creator of Crash Course. He currently has three books on New York Times Bestseller list, Looking for Alaska, Paper Towns, and The Fault in Our Stars.

One of Green’s most popular books, The Fault in Our Stars is a chaotic whirlwind that takes a journey into the romance of two teenagers living with cancer. Hazel Grace Lancaster was diagnosed with thyroid cancer at thirteen. Now at sixteen, the cancer has spread to her lungs. Her mother encourages her to attend a support group for children that live with cancer. On one rare occasion when she attended the support group her mother suggested, she meets Augustus Waters, a friend of Isaac’s from her support group. Augustus is a seventeen-year-old who lost his right leg to Osteosarcoma, and is still in remission. When the support group ends, Augustus tells Hazel she reminds him of a movie.

Hazel and Augustus relationship changes vividly over the course of two weeks. Hazel constantly refers to her favorite novel ‘An Imperial Affliction’ by van Houten; Augustus offers to take her on a trip to Amsterdam to find van Houten using his Genies. The two love-struck teenagers learn to accept their fate when they understand their days together are numbered.

John Green’s novel The Fault in Our Stars clearly packs a punch for readers, but the novel is slow moving and sentimental. The details are shown clearly and thoroughly described; each thought is never left alone. Although, this book was not as good of a read as expected, I felt entangled in the details of the story rather than the plot.4