5 years after my initial review, this book can still hit home with its delicate analysis on the stages of loss and grief through the eyes of teenagers and overall stoic messages about enjoying the people in your life.

I deeply enjoy how even from his earliest works, Green can go from a light-hearted romantic teen comedy to a thought-provoking psycho-philosphocial conversation about the meaning of life and dealing with the errors we make inadvertently while at the process of it. Maybe even hinting at the notion that errors can be what makes life wonderful and suffering can be the meaning we search for, should we learn to delve in it.

The first half of the book seemed to me deeply mundane and thus I couldn't keep my overall review over 7/10 this time around. An easy read with great depth for anyone looking close enough!

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August 18, 2018 initial review

This book was a treat.

I had no idea what it was about, as I usually like to take recommended books, when I started it but got hooked into it from the first pages. I loved the count-down chapters and the comically tragic scenes painted in my mind by Green. Miles, the main character, is inevitably relatable and the premise of the story for my age (24) got a bit predictable and cringey but the meaning and the point of view being brought to the reader was worth it's money in this book. The book's main takeways are a great message no matter how you look at them and can bring a lot of sense to subjects too difficult to deal with or even face at any point in one's life. I loved the maturity with which the problems are dealt with and the foor for thought Green leaves afterwards.

It is the first of his books I've read (although I have seen Paper Towns and The Fault in Our Stars) and it will certainly not be the last, after what I just read. It's also the first I've read only within a week! It had me losing track of the page number. It's no wonder he's received so many accolades, great work from a great mind!

I'm looking forward to rereading this beautiful book after I've gained some more experience with books of this type. I will obviously go for whatever else Green's got to offer me.

5/5 stars. amazing.