French the llama this book is good! If you don't get the reference, watch Vlogbrothers on youtube. In the meantime, read this book! John Green manages to tell what could be a very depressing novel of two cancer patients, Hazel and Augustus, falling in love in a sarcastic, teenager-y way. And with all the wry humor, he's able to take your heart and turn it into a mushed pile of what once was a functioning organ lying on your diaphragm, and still leaves you smiling at the end of the book!
The only reason I picked up this book was because I subscribe to John and his brother Hank's YouTube channel, Vlogbrothers. I normally didn't read realistic fiction because for me, it wasn't realistic to my life. But I saw this book on my librarian's desk and had to tell her about Vlogbrothers, and while we waited for the video, I read the first page. Which led to the next page...then the next chapter and the chapter after that... you get the idea. I recommend this book to everyone and anyone, no matter what genre you like. It certainly deserves the title of best young adult fiction of 2012.
