The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

Title: The Fault in Our Stars

Author: John Green

Rating: 10/10

OMG this book was just...beautiful :')If any book deserves to be described as beautiful then it's definitely this one. The story..the dialogues..the ..GAAAA EVERYTHING!

The plot revolves around Hazel Grace who has terminal lung cancer. Her parents make her join a cancer support group where she meets the gorgeous, wonderful Augustus Waters. The book was a beautiful, heart warming read and it's unfortunately very difficult to describe without giving any spoilers away xp

Hazel and Gus had a great sense of humour and wit that lifted your mood and kept your hopes up throughout the book despite it being a book about two teenagers with cancer. I was actually really reluctant to read it because i just thought i wasn't ready for a depressing story that will just make me all empty and broken inside.. and i wasn't 0.0 This book will most certainly make you ball your eyes out and cry but it's also definitely a treasure amongst the world of books and for me it was one of those you-have-to-read-this-book-it's-awesomesauce typish ones ^_^ .  Here's some of my favourite moments:

“Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.” 

“Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.” 

"Augustus Waters talked so much that he'd interupt you at his own funeral. And he was pretentious: Sweet Jesus Christ, that kid never took a piss without pondering the abundant metaphorical resonances of human waste production. And he was vain: I do not believe I have ever met a more physically attractive person who was more acutely aware of his own physical attractiveness."

“That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence

'It's just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.'

'Right, it's primarily his hotness,' I said. 'It can be sort of blinding,' he said. 'It actually did blind our friend Isaac,' I said.'Terrible tragedy, that. But can I help my own deadly beauty?''You cannot.''It is my burden, this beautiful face.''Not to mention your body.''Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot body. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. Seeing me naked actually took Hazel Grace's breath away,' he said, nodding toward the oxygen tank.” 

“Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.” 

“You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.” 

"I didn’t tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You’re a woman. Now die."

“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.” 

As for the ending..which has to be mentioned..well this perfectly explains my emotional journey while reading this book:

and some more tears..

and then some..

~The potterhead panemaniac pancake lover ~

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Touching Melody by RaShelle Workman

Title : Touching Melody

Author : RaShelle Workman

Rating : 3/10

Before starting let me warn you that this might have a few huge spoilers but just read it anyway because the book isn't worth wasting your time on.

Touching melody is supposed to be a touching, sad story about Maddie Martin, a girl with a traumatic past who one day saw her parents' dead bodies in the kitchen. She was taken to live with her nice aunt and uncle, but lost contact with her best friend, Kyle, who's father just happens to be the murderer of her parents.

 Now Maddie didn't bother trying to talk to Kyle for 7 years because "bad men raise bad kids". But the minute she sees him in college, all sensible thoughts fly out the window and all she wants to do is live a happily ever after with him.

I'm not going to talk about any of the other characters (her best friend, Kyle's cousin and uncle, other people) because mainly I have no idea who they are. What are their stories? What happens to them at the end? Who ends up where? None of this is anywhere in the book. Even the introduction of the characters was incomplete. Let me explain.

At one point in the book she sees Kyle's uncle and thinks "he looks familiar where have I seen him before" and then that's it. You don't find out who he is or what he's doing. Like there's absolutely no mention of the man until the end where it's revealed that he's actually the 'murderer' and Kyle's father was just standing there. And that's where it ends. There's no explanation of whether or not they get caught or if they go to jail or get eaten by cannibalistic monkeys. Nothing.

Another character was Maddie's friend, Gina. I thought she would be a big part of the story but ends up she was just a drug addict who I think liked Maddie because of the way she acted around her. But I'll never know.

Probably the main reason I didn't like most of the book was that the plot of the story wasn't realistic enough.
Everything was incomplete. It didn't have a proper ending or beginning. I didn't feel a connection to any of the characters and by the time the book ends I wanted to throw away the book.

And these. These just made me want to bang my head against a brick wall. Things like these shouldn't be out in public in this century. I'm pretty sure everyone knows what ;) means, yet we get this.

“Then he types a semi-colon with a parenthesis—a winking face”
 REALLY? IS THAT WHAT A SEMI-COLON AND A PARENTHESIS IS?

There were so many more like these but I don't want you to suffer reading them.

The authors attempts at humour might have made me smile just a little bit. But only sometimes.



“My phone vibrates. I hate this class. It’s Toxic. She Drives Me Crazy.”

They have a teacher (who turns out to be a secret agent oh wow plot twist!) called   Ms. Spears so this was a little funny.

In all honesty, if you're looking for a book and see Touching Melody, carefully take 10 steps back and run as fast as you can to another place. This isn't worth reading but if you plan on doing it anyway I salute your powerful brave heart to be able to manage this disgrace to books.

--The Lady Of Cheese