The Fault In Our Stars is a charming novel about a young girl called Hazel Grace Lancaster. Hazel is 16 and has terminal lung cancer. She is reluctant to go a cancer support group, but it is there that she meets the charming and witty Augustus Waters.
Augustus is in remission after suffering from a rare form of bone cancer called Osteosarcoma. Despite his affections, Hazel is reluctant to get close to Augustus as she sees herself as a “ticking time bomb” that will one day explode and obliterate everyone in her path.
However, despite the inevitable, they both embark on a touching and life altering relationship with each other. During the novel, the two teenagers travel to Amsterdam in search of the author of their favorite book, and while on their trip, Augustus tells Hazel something that will alter their lives forever.
The Fault In Our Stars is the fourth solo novel by author John Green. Even though it is a story about teenagers with cancer, it never feels overbearing, and instead remains perfectly touching and poignant throughout. I have been a fan of Green’s work ever since I stumbled across a copy of Looking for Alaska over 5 years ago. Every novel that he writes I seem to read in under a week, so when I bought a copy of The Fault In Our Stars I was reluctant to read it for over a year, as I knew I would get completely absorbed into the book and get far too attached to the characters he had created. And when I eventually did read this book, as I knew I would, I read in it only a couple of days, and then spent the following week wandering around lost and not knowing how to cope with the ending of the book.
Yes, The Fault In Our Stars is undeniably sad, and, coming from a person that rarely cries at novels, I cried whilst reading this. But wrapped within all of the sad moments there are also moments of beauty and comedy. I can’t recommend enough for you to read this book! If you’re still unsure, check out the trailer of the film adaptation that is coming out this summer.