Hazel is a terminally ill teenager. She has stage four thyroid cancer. She meets a boy at cancer group therapy. Augustus is an amputee, a former basketball player, in remission, very handsome, and totally into Hazel. The teens fall in love.
They talk about getting their cancer wish and Hazel admits to having already used hers on Disney World, but Gus has been saving his. He comes out of remission and gets very sick.
Hazel is obsessed with a book and its author. The book has a sudden ending and Hazel is dying to know what happened to one of the characters after it is over.
Personal Reaction:
I cannot bear to reveal the end (or even the middle) of the story and rob anyone of the journey. The ending of this book is kind of like your opponent's poker hand, you have to pay to see it. In fact, I feel like I have already revealed too much about this wonderful book. The Fault in Our Stars is extremely edgy, allowing teens to deal with rough parts of life instead of everyone pretending that they do not already deal with these topics. This book is real, real, real. I find one of the most compelling aspects to be the pressure that Hazel feels to live. She feels like a bomb that will go off and devastate everyone around her. I never thought about that aspect of having cancer as a young person before.
This book is probably not appropriate for readers under eighth grade or so, and SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
contains some mild sexual content.
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