People have been telling me that this is John Green's best. I don't agree. The main reason being I've read books like this before, and so it wasn't really anything new. The 'BEFORE' section was like a deeper version of Anna & the French Kiss, and the 'AFTER' was very similar to The Virgin Suicides. So I wasn't blown away. And I need to be blown away to give a high rating. But this is not to say that this book was horrible, because it wasn't ... it was pretty cool actually. Loved the characters immensely. And the last paragraph of the book was beautiful. I just expected more.