This story is about Hazel Lancaster Grace, a beautiful young women who has lung cancer. I think that Hazel is a really nice girl, even while she hasn’t much friends because of her sickness. She don’t want to make her parents sad because of her. Because she knows that ‘there’s only one thing in the world shittier than beating in from cancer and that’s having a kid who beats it from cancer.’ Her mom decides that Hazel is depressed. She only read one book ‘an imperial affliction’ over and over again. So her parents send her to a cancer kid support group that’s depressing as hell.
There she meets Augustus Waters, a 17 year old boy with an amputated leg but handsome, sweet, honest, a gentleman where every girl dreams about. Gradually they fall in love with each other. They spent Augustus wish (every cancer kid gets one and Hazel already spent her one to go to Disneyland with her parents) to go together to Amsterdam where the Author of the book AIA is living. He said that he wants only answer the questions that Hazel and Augustus have about his book face to face. So there they go. On their way back to the hotel, Hazel finds out that Augustus is really sick again (he was declared cancer free for 1,5 year.) and is probably going to die soon.
A few days before Augustus dies he wrote an letter to Peter van Houten. In the letter he wrote that he wants him to write an eulogy for Hazel, because Peter is an shitty person and a good writer and he is a good person and a shitty writer. The assistant of Peter sends the letter to Hazel and when Hazel reads the letter that’s where the book ends. What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. you don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.
I do, Augustus.
I think this is a beautiful end of a beautiful book.
The title is inspired from Act 1, Scene 2 of Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, in which the nobleman Cassius says to Brutus: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
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