The Fault In Our Stars (English) Review

The Fault In Our Stars is a touching and witty story narrated by a 16 year old girl, struggling with cancer, called Hazel. She falls in mesmerizing love with a 17 year old boy called Augustus Waters. They meet at cancer support group session which she is insisted by her parents to attend. This innocent romantic story has been written by an American author named John Green.

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What Is The Story of The Fault In Our Stars?

The Fault In Our Stars story is inspired by the writer’s own experiences especially while working with kids facing this life-threatening disease called cancer. Certainly, it’s a thrilling, witty and of course heartbreaking love-story of a teen-age girl named Hazel who is also a cancer patient. 

The story begins when Hazel was forced by her father and mother to attend a cancer children support group in the vicinity of the town. Hence, during the session, she meets Augustus Waters through a common friend called Isaac.  Waters is a former basketball player and an amputee.

After the completion of the session of support group, Augustus suggests her to watch a favourite movie together at his home. While talking about various things usual and unusual, she tells Augustus about her most favourite novel called An Imperial Affliction. Having gone through the novel, Augustus also gets as obsessed with the novel as Hazel is. 

After that movie day, they start spending much time in togetherness and soon find themselves in deep love. The turning point of the story starts when Augustus determine to use his desire from The Genies, a modern form of mythological Wish Foundation, to freely fly Hazel as well as himself to city Amsterdam to meet the writer of the book, named Peter Van Houten. 

So, what happens afterwards is funny yet heart-touching story of two teen-age lovers, dealing with a horrible diseased called cancer. The book promises to touch inner emotions of the readers and displays them the real meaning of being in love and alive.

According to The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, The Fault In Our Stars is the bestseller book. It has also been translated into different languages, including French, Dutch, Chinese, Portuguese and German. 

Further, a movie based on this book is supposed to be released in the end of 2014 by prominent Fox 2000, which is a division of famous studio called 20^th Century Fox. The movie is likely to be directed by popular Josh Boone and would star Ansel Elgort and Shailene Woodley.

About the Author

The Fault In Our Stars has been written by a renowned American educator and author John Green. Apart from this exclusive romantic work, he has also contributed several other books such as An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns and Looking For Alaska. John Green was born on 24^th of August in the year of 1977 in Indianapolis, but he spent most of his growing years in Florida, Orland, etc. He did his schooling from famous Indian Springs School, and after that he graduated from Kenyon College in 2000 with double major in English language and Religious Studies.