The Fault in Our Stars

The Fault in Our Stars is written by John Green. It’s the multi-million worldwide bestseller. The book is a young adult novel and it has been published in 2012. It’s protagonists are Hazel Graze and Augustus Waters. They live in Indianapolis.

The book tells about their love story and life. Hazel and Augustus are both having cancer. They meet at the Cancer Kid Support Club and they fall in love. I think that the books backcover describes the book very well: ”The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning author John Green’s most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling and tragic business of being alive and in love”. The book tells the story from Hazel’s view. The story is really sad and touching.

The book’s main character Hazel is a sixteen year old girl, who has cancer. She has gotten a few more years to live because of her medical. Hazel lives with her parents and she’s the only child in their family. The other main character Augustus is twenty-one year old. He is having a cancer too. Augustus is attractive and smart and he fears oblivion. Augustus hadn’t been in proper school in three years and his parents used to be his two best friends. The other characters of the book are Isaac (who is Augustus’ best friend and he is also having cancer), Monica (Isaac’s girlfriend), Hazel’s parents, Augustus parents and sisters, Patrick (Support group leader), Peter Van Houten  (he is an author and Hazel and Augustus goes to Amsterdam to meet him) and Lidewij (Peter’s assistant).

My favorite part of the book is a part where they are travelling to Amsterdam, because it wasn’t so sad than many other parts of the book. The book evoked many feelings. In some parts it was funny and in other parts really sad. The atmosphere was pretty dark and sad because it focused quite much to cancer. The book was a bit difficult to read because it had some special words concerning cancer. There were also few poems which made reading a bit challenging.

I really liked the book because it was well written and had a good plot. I also liked that how the author described things. But I didn’t like that the plot revolved so much around cancer because it made the book’s atmosphere so sad and dark.

I would recommend this book to all those who like touching love stories.