Book Review

Miles Halter is the main lead of the story who resides in Florida. He is reclusive and is shown as a boy who wants to seek a ‘Great perhaps’. Miles chooses to attend the Culver Creek Boarding School in Alabama to start a fresh life. There he makes his first mate Chip, known as “the Colonel” by all. He nicknamed Miles as “Pudge”(ironic name) and called him with the same name throughout the book. The Colonel introduces him to his friend, Alaska, who was a fierce and enigmatic girl. Miles spontaneously falls in love with her. All of them are then involved in multiple pranks and mishappenings and then, there is the unexpected mid-way surprise. I cannot tell what actually happened as this review is supposed to be spoiler-free but after that event, the book divides into two parts. One Before and one After that event. The first part is kind of happier and funny while another is the one with lots of sorrow and heartbreak The first part is filled with a number of high school events, the buildin

It’s a story about the main character Hazel Grace, she is seventeen and has thyroid cancer with metastasis forming in her lungs, which causes her to carry around an oxygen tank and wear a cannula, and occasionally she has trouble breathing and her mother decides that she needs to go to a weekly Support Group to beat her depression. Hazel has an almost non-verbal friendship with Isaac whom she meets at the group, both frustrated with the group leader and share looks and sighs with each other. Isaac’s friend comes along to group one day, Augustus Waters (Gus) and Hazel can’t help but notice him, he is hot and won’t stop staring at her. They strike up a conversation, friendship blooms and the two quickly become inseparable. What follows is a journey between two people, brought together by friendship who go through and share so much in a limited amount of time. For two young people, our characters are very deep thinkers, Gus has theories and philosophies and shares them with Hazel. This is