- SHORT SUMMARY
Hazel, a 16-year-old girl, has been battling thyroid cancer since age 13, and only through the use of an experimental drug she is still alive. She carries an oxygen tank with her everywhere, and hasn't attended traditional school since her diagnosis. Depressed and lonely, she tries a support group, where she meets the handsome, and deceptively sick, Augustus Waters, a 17-year-old dream boy who comes to turn her life into an adventure. Cancer victims don't have the luxury of time to handle with their affections. Instead, Augustus and Hazel fast become friends. Augustus lends Hazel his favourite book, “The Price of Dawn,” the “brilliant and haunting novelization of my favourite video game,” so she lends him hers: “An Imperial Affliction” by Peter Van Houten, about a girl who has cancer. Van Houten ends his novel abruptly in the middle of a sentence, and Hazel is obsessed with finding out what happened to the characters. Augustus, too, becomes riveted by “An Imperial Affliction,” and uses his “wish” from “The Genie Foundation,” an organization devoted to the cheering up of sick children, to send himself and Hazel to Amsterdam to meet Van Houten. The writer was different than expected and didn’t give the answers Hazel and Augustus were looking for. Despite this misfortune, they enjoyed the trip and fell in love. But Hazel calls herself a grenade, because of her disease, that is about to explode and she wants to minimalize the casualties when she will be dead so she won’t let people come close. Eventually she let Augustus come closer than anyone ever had. The situation changes dramatically when Augustus undergoes a scan. Now August is the grenade instead of Hazel.
- REVIEW
“The fault in our stars”, by reading this title I didn’t know anything about the book. I heard from a lot of friends that the book was amazing and that I had to read it so eventually, I did. Two days in a row I read non-stop in the book, the time flew by and when I ended it I wanted to read it again hoping that it would end differently. But it didn’t. It wasn’t a fairy tail ending where they lived happily ever after and where they weren’t sick anymore. It was the reality and I loved and hated it at the same time. As Hazel and Gus often remind each other, the world is not a wish-granting factory.
“There are infinite numbers between zero and one. There’re 0.1 and 0.12 and 0.112 and an infinite collection of others.” The trouble, she says, is, “I want more numbers than I’m likely to get.” Hazel, the main character and the person who tells the story, is the one who said this. This book shows us we don’t have a lot of time and that we should be thankful for it. That’s only one of the lessons we get from John Green, the writer. Reading this book, you are obliged to think about life. Not only about the lovely, beautiful things but also about the though and hard things.
About the subject, love in time of sickness, is written a lot and this is one of the thousands books. But if you have some time and you want to get your eyes opened and appreciate life, you must read it. I must warn you when you start reading it, take some handkerchiefs with you.
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