Love the characters, love the style, love the way the author grabs terminal cancer by the balls and subjects the reader to a frank, no holes bared, journey of love, lose and despair.
The book is narrated by Hazel Grace Lancaster, a terminally ill, sixteen year old cancer patient, who falls in love with a fellow patient, (Augustus) who is in remission. There's teenage angst, disputes, love, anger and of course, a hell of a lot of heartache; but in spite of it all, this book left me wanting more.
It inspires hope where there is none, laughter where there's pain and like Hazel Grace and her unquenchable thirst for what happens to the characters in 'Imperial Affliction', I want to know what happens to her, and her parents, and . . .
I'm selfish, I want more.
So, a big fat four stars then. Hold on a minute! Four stars, FOUR!
Yes, four.
I loved so much about this book, but why Hazel Grace and Augustus had to go to Amsterdam to meet their favourite author, is beyond me. It would have been so much better if they'd visited because their favourite book was set there, or that they just wanted to experience the city. I realise that meeting the author ties in with the end of the book, but still felt it could have been handled differently.
Inspiration for the day goes to all the lovely people that work for Marie Curie, (www.mariecurie.org.uk) who in England, support the terminally ill. God bless them.
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