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The Fault in our Stars - my review

Today, I completed reading " the fault in our stars" by John Green. This is quite different from the other fiction which I've been reading. This has also showed me a new world.

The story revolves around a 16 year old girl Hazel who has thyroid cancer. She attends a camp where she gets to interact with other cancer kids. She was not very sociable, until she met a boy named Augustus Waters. And the rest of the story is based on their relationship and Hazel overcoming her challenges.

The book also highlights another book called "An Imperial Affliction", but sources say it's not real. That story had actually been Hazel's favourite and she took a few points from it seriously, it seems. In order to know the end of her favourite book, Hazel travels to Amsterdam to see the author. But she doesn't get her answers anyway. The way how Hazel thinks about what happens to Anna ( the main character of an imperial affliction) is what the real book makes it's readers think, according to me. Augustus dies at the end, and no one knows what happened to Hazel.

This book is really different from the other fiction I've been reading. They had fantasies, myths and mysteries. But this book, I feel, depicts the bitter truths of life. And as it is the first book I've read in this genre, I was excited and I wanted to write about what I felt while reading it. It's surely a great book. 
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