I have never read anyone who could go from making me sob like a baby to laughing out loud in a span of a few chapters. When tragedy strikes within the novel, you feel it cut deeply, because you get used to the characters and you feel it with them. But then Green helps you move on, and you do, along with the characters. Which is the most amazing thing ever. I have never read a book that actually helped me get over a tragedy within it. I put it down not with a feeling of loss, but content.