The Fault in Our Stars is a novel by John Green.

Plot:
Hazel is sixteen, and is slowly dying from cancer. For that her parents force her to attend a support group which only turns really interesting for Hazel when her friend Isaac (eye cancer) brings his best friend Augustus to the group. Augustus lost one of his legs to osteosarcoma. Hazel and Augustus quickly bond over a novel – An Imperial Affliction – and their obsession with that book leads them on wholly unexpected adventures.

Oh boy. I wrote before that during my holidays, there were two books that made me cry while I lay on the beach in the sun. This was the second one. And oh, how I wept. But it also made me laugh. And fall in love. A wonderful book.

Both Augustus and Hazel are beautiful, wonderful characters. They are obviously teenagers – especially Augustus – but in the non-annoying way that they so rarely achieve in real life.

I was so involved with the two of them that I really wouldn’t have needed the whole dicking about with the rather clichéd, horrible author of An Imperial Affliction. Especially him turning up for the second time – I thought that was really unnecessary.

But other than that I loved the book. It was wonderful and sweet and funny and most of all just really, really touching.

I really wouldn’t have expected [SPOILER] that Augustus dies in the end. It was obvious that one of them would, but I thought that it would be Hazel. But when Augustus symptoms start, it becomes obvious real quick. Which just means that you have more time to dread the end. [/SPOILER]

I’m pretty blown away by it all.

Summarizing: yes, good. Sob.