The Fault in Our Stars

The Fault in Our Stars
By John Green
Reviewed by Petra

I read the book The Fault in our Stars, and it was possibly one of the best books I have ever read. This book is about Hazel Grace and Augustus Waters battle with cancer. The two meet at a support group and they became good friends, which soon turned into being boyfriend and girlfriend. When they first started dating Augustus was cancer free, while Hazel had to have oxygen almost all the time. Augustus took Hazel and her mother to Amsterdam where they were going to meet the author of An Imperial Affliction. They had a very fancy dinner the second day they were in Amsterdam and the author Peter Van Houten of an Imperial Affliction paid for their dinner.

Peter seemed very nice for spending a good amount of money for their dinner so they thought that he would be very nice according to this and the many letters they had both separately sent to him. The next morning they were going to his house and hazel had dressed up like anna from the novel hoping that it would please Peter. They both went to Peter’s house and his assistant lead them where Dr. Van Houten was sitting. The whole purpose of going to see him is because Hazel wanted to know the futures of the characters after the book ended. Peter refused to answer her questions and made some very offensive about their disease and appeared to be drunk which really upset both of them. It was so offensive that his assistant started crying and quit and kept apologizing to them.

They eventually left because they couldn’t take it anymore and Hazel was crying because of this. After that Augustus promised that he would finish the book for her. Hazel noticed that Augustus seemed more tired and worn out recently which made her very nervous. The next day he sat her down and told her that the cancer was back and he started to cry. Hazel had never seen him cry before. Augustus had already told her family which he apologized to her for that because he didn’t want to ruin Amsterdam for them. They left Amsterdam the next day and Augustus was getting worse by the day. Hazel went to his house everyday which really cheered Augustus up.

 All he seemed to do now was sleep and Hazel was right by his side. A few weeks later, Augustus Waters died. Hazel and her family and the Waters family were so upset and depressed, hazel didn’t see the point to live anymore. The day of the funeral there were lots of people that Augustus knew that she had never met. She said a beautiful speech she wrote for Augustus which moved people to tears. Although she would miss Augustus terribly he was always in every ones heart. There are still a lot of great things that happen in this book but that would be way too long. I highly recommend this book it is a beautiful story and will make you want to read it over and over.