The Fault In Our Stars

Welcome to the Young Reader's Review! I am sorry I haven´t been posting, I was on vacation and didn't have regular access to wifi. I had the time to read a lot books that I will soon review. But before this, I have to write about a book that´s been BIG this year. Every teen girl read this. It is like they had to! It made you laugh, smile and cry. It's one of John Green's amazing books: ☁The Fault In our Stars ☁



To start off if you haven't read this book please put the device you are reading this article with down and run to your closest book store to buy it. This story exploded Tumblr, Instagram and Facebook. Thousands of fanfics have been written. It has to be epic to be this big! So if you've haven't read this book I will persuade you to read it and if you did you can enjoy the book review and maybe you will see this book in a different way.


Hazel Grace Lancaster is a sixteen year old girl with lung cancer. Ever since she was small, she has had lung problems and could literally die at any moment. She compares herself to a grenade; she could explode at any moment. This morally brings her down and she keeps reading the same book again and again.



In the book you get very attached to Hazel and at first you pity her but, Hazel doesn't want to be pitied at all. You realize it while reading it and then start seeing life from her point of view. John Green makes it easy to put yourself into her shoes.


Continuing the story, Hazel's doctor suggests her to go to a Cancer Kid Support Group for moral support. Hazel doesn't want to meet other children in the same situation as her and she doesn't think that it'll help her. But at the end her mother makes her go.



The meetings take place in a church. Going into the church, Hazel bumps into a young man about her age called Augustus Waters (Gus). At the moment John Green describes their eye contact we, the reader, know that love is upon them.


When they get to the heart of the church, everybody introduces themselves and says what kind of disease they have. Augustus says that he survived leg cancer and even though it made him lose a leg. Hazel also meets his friend, Isaac, who has eye cancer and will soon go blind. He and Augustus seem very close.

When the group meeting is over, Hazel goes outside to wait for her mother to come get her. Meanwhile, she watches Isaac make out with his girlfriend. They keep saying ‘Always’ while kissing. Later on in the story, ‘Okay’ becomes Augustus and Hazel´s ‘Always’.


But as she is waiting for her mom, Augustus comes over to see her. She asks him why he’s looking at her like that and he says because she’s beautiful. Then he starts talking about a movie that Hazel doesn’t know. He tells her that she should come watch it at his house. But then he takes out a cigarette. She’s disgusted because she has lung cancer and he is a cancer survivor and can’t believe that he’s poisoning himself like that. But then Gus says:


“They don’t kill you unless you light them, and I’ve never lit one. It’s a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do its killing.”


Isn’t it beautiful? What I love about this book is that it is full of nice metaphors.


So Hazel goes to his house and watches the movie with him. Little by little, they start falling more and more in love and they start knowing more about each other. Hazel makes Gus read her favorite book: An Imperial Affliction.


Hazel is, like I said before, obsessed by this book. The last sentence of the book is only half completed which makes Hazel long for more. Her dream is to go to Holland to meet the author, Peter Van Houten.


Augustus, in the most romantic way, tells Hazel that he wants to use his wish (When you are sick you can ask a “genie” for a wish. It can be anything. Hazel used it when she was thirteen to go to Disneyland) to go to Amsterdam, Holland to meet Peter Van Houten so he can answer their questions.


I won’t spoil the rest of book but, lots of exciting things will happen from here on. Even though times in this book will be tough, this book is excellent. It’s beautifully written (Well, of course John Green wrote it), there are like I said very good metaphors and quotes, and the plot is genius. I have to alert you, this book will ruin all of your emotions. So now before school starts, or work for some of you, read this book!


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