John Green’s newest book The Fault in Our Stars was released last week on Tuesday, Jan. 10. The book had been highly anticipated by Green’s strong fan base. He signed every copy of the first printing, so many fans that preordered the book received a signed copy. While there were some inevitable problems that arose from trying to sign every copy of the first printing, it was still a pretty cool attempt on Green’s part and obviously quite the endeavor.

The book follows 16-year-old Hazel, who has thyroid cancer, as she meets and eventually falls in love with Augustus, a fellow teen cancer patient. The story centers around Hazel’s obsession with her favorite book and her and Augustus’s travels to meet the book’s author and have him answer some of their pressing questions about the book’s abrupt ending.

Like all of Green’s books, The Fault in Our Stars was written in an attempt to expose, rather than cover up, some of the sad realities teens can be faced with while still having his signature slightly humorous undertone.

While I did really like the book and was determined to finish it quickly to find out the ending, it was essentially the same exact story line as one of Green’s other books Looking for Alaska, a complicated teen love story that meets an unfortunate end.

Obviously Green has been successful as a writer, just based on how well his books have been selling. But with every book he writes it becomes more and more apparent to me that he doesn’t have a very wide spectrum for the type of books he writes, and probably won’t ever expand. His books are interesting but I don’t think by any means they will go down in literary history as being anything groundbreaking.