Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.

I remember having this book in my library for quite a while. I also read it two years ago, but anyway… You know, usually I need to be in a very special depressed mood to read a book that I know is definitely going to deal with a very heavy topic. Children with cancer is for sure one of these topics. So I started this book being a little bit depressed and in the perfect mood to actually read it. So I started and... MY! GOD! Didn’t I laugh and cry at the same time! 

Okay, so let me settle down the beginning, the first very few pages. “Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.” (See what I mean now about this book?) Anyway! Hazel is a seventeen year-old teenager who has been living with cancer her whole life. Lately, her mum presumes she is depressed because of the reasons told a few sentences before. Besides, Hazel tried to keep in touch with her high school best friend, but every time they see each other it’s more awkward than anything else. 

Thus, after some persuasion, Hazel decides to humor her mum and goes to Support Group. There, she meets Isaac – a boy who has a cancer from the eyes – and Augustus – who suffered osteosarcoma cancer. Isaac already lost one eye and is about to lose the other one, condemning him to blindness. But instead of taking this in a very tragic tone, John Green turns into a very humoristic tone. I know what you are wondering: how could you possibly take this with humour?! Wait and see, little lambs!