THE FAULT IN OUR STARS by John Green

The story also leaves a message of courage, true happiness and how to live life. The readers are unwittingly brought into the lives of the characters and start feeling and thinking about them as one of their own. This is a book that has it all, be it love, emotion, drama, humor, pain, fear and even death.

It touches the chords of the readers’ hearts through its emotional appeal.

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The Fault in Our Stars is ultimately a tale of star-crossed lovers. Although it points out the path taken by “cancer books” and attempts at times to get to the same place by circuitous roads, it does eventually. It is as much a tearjerker in the end for its witty narration, its lovable hero and heroine, its sweetness and its unflinching look at mortality.

MY THOUGHTS.

We open up the story to Hazel Grace, who is your average teenage girl except for the fact her body is filled with cancer and she has to carry around an oxygen tank because her “lungs suck at being lungs.”

However, even though this book is neatly placed on every teenage girl’s bookshelf, there is more to it than just two love birds that live happily ever after. 

This is not, as Hazel Grace might put it, a “Cancer Book.”

This book is real. Everything is real, especially the diseases. 

John Green didn’t sugar coat a single sentence because, let’s face it, cancer is an ugly thing. At each turn of the page you’re forced to feel the pain of Hazel’s lungs struggling to breathe and the reality that each breath she takes could be her last. 

Most importantly, throughout the novel, Augustus and Hazel are not defined by their cancer. It may consume them, but it doesn’t define them. On every page it is clear; the story is told by someone who hasn’t known just one person with cancer, but has met a multitude of people with terminal disease.  Hazel's dry sense of humor and bravery was unique. She accepted her illness but refused to let it control her life. Augustus Waters, on the other hand becomes weak by the end of the novel. He refuses to accept his illness until the very end.

Though just teenagers, Hazel and Augustus have left intriguing things for readers throughout the book. Augustus always puts a cigarette in his mouth but never lights one, he knows it can’t kill him unless he chooses to do so!  Hazel thinks of herself as a grenade because she knows her death is going to deeply hurt the people around her. Augustus realizes each of us wants to be remembered long after we have gone, though we mostly leave scars behind.

It is simply extraordinary.

My rating: 4.2/5

Recommended for: Teens, Young Adult, Adults,