This is yet another page-turning young adult book about teenage cancer. I've read loads of them and this one really stands out because it doesn't advocate the trivial start-living-life-to-the-fullest cliche, which is a very popular thing to do in cancer books. Two thirds of the book make you laugh out loud almost all the time even when the humor is rather bitter and blackly sarcastic (and it is like that most of the time), but then at the very end of the book if you're not at least suppressing tears, you must be emotionally frigid. 
 The Fault in Our Stars is not only a cancer book, but a brilliantly written love story between two teenagers with different terminal diseases. A story like that cannot end well, but nonetheless the ending is rather unexpected and blunt. I really liked the fact that there were no cheesy conversations in agony. Hazel Grace was the first character from all cancer books I've read that I can really relate to: she's honest, blunt, pessimistically realistic, inquisitive, loves reading, her manner of speech is quite weird and she almost never does something she doesn't want to. 
 I don't know what makes people pick up cancer books, but if one day you find yourself interested in a subject like that, I'd recommend to start your cancer journey with this story.