But eventually she becomes convinced by Augustus that hurt is inevitable, and that even though you can’t prevent it, you can choose who hurts you.ĭiscussion: There are many issues raised in this book that are important. Letting someone love her, she thinks, is an act of violence against him. I.e., it won’t be long before she blows up (that is, dies), and when she does, she doesn’t want to take any more casualties with her than necessary. In spite of Hazel’s attraction to Augustus, she tries to avoid him, because she feels like a grenade. She makes two friends at a cancer support group: Isaac, who is going blind, and Augustus, who has an amputated leg from osteosarcoma. The book is narrated by Hazel, age 16, who has Stage IV thyroid cancer with lung metastases. I looked at other reviews and they have words and phrases I would use too: exquisite extraordinary tough damn near genius heart-wrenching brimming with joy elegantly plotted touching valentine to the human spirit beautiful, shining sentences that you just want to underline in every single colour and cut out and put on the wall and glue onto postcards freaking amazing…. Since it is one of the best books I’ve ever read, it is difficult for me to do it justice with a review. This is a book about some teenagers with cancer, but it is not at all a sob story.

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