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One word, wow.

Speechless, overwhelmed, surprised - this story got me on a wild roller coaster of emotions.

I remembered back in the days, when this movie became the talk of the town. It was too mainstream, to the point it got annoying to me and I don't even have the slightest idea to why everyone was SO attracted to it.

Honestly, I wasn't that interested as anyone else. To me, it is just a cliche romance story between a guy and girl; then either they end up with a happy ending or a tragic one instead.

Then finally, after two years, I made my decision to read up the book. The moment I started reading it, I realized this is a different love story after all.

What got me was the fact that they are aware of their sickness and aware that they are running out of time. STILL, they lived every single moment, every single minute and seconds like it was their last. For a love like that to exist is rare, and this taught me to not judge the book by its covers.

Tragic ending, but this book taught me lots of things. It taught me to be grateful with what I have now; to always cherish every moment, because every little thing matters. Be it in friendship, or even in a relationship.

All in all, this book changed my perspective on how I perceived the world - especially on the sick and underprivileged.

If they are able to live their lives to their fullest, why can't I?

If they can find their happiness even in their darkest times, why am I still wallowing in my despair?

You only live once. So, make it worthwhile.

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This book broke me. Whatever the ending was, it was out of my expectations. I mean, I'm sure it's cliche that two teenagers with fated death meet each other and fall in love. Then, one dies and the other one mourns. Only typical. However, the story line; the journey that the book brought me through, was a sweet torture.

I think that the writer, John Green was a genius when writing this piece. The Fault in Our Stars was the perfect title, I could not even begin to argue about that in the first place. The stars are beautiful however, their stars were not. So much broken destinies.

This book woke me up from my idealization of happy-endings in relationships and friendships. Truth is, life is messy. It is never morning coffee, and fresh breeze in our faces. Sometimes we go beyond our expectations to believe in something that can never be true. It is our mind games that holds us a hostage. At the end of the day, when people have to leave, they will leave. Not a second early, or late. Next thing you know, they are just goners.

It broke me but I loved it. I love how this book broke my heart. Honestly, it was a privilege to have my heart broken by it. Shout out to John Green, for such a beautiful piece.

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I took up this book because I was a fan of the author since before the movie came out due to him hosting shows called CrashCourse on YouTube. Before that I didn't knew that he was an author until I saw the trailer for The Fault in Our Stars being played E V E R Y W H E R E on my TV screen, my phone, and it was even the talk of the town in my school. So much so, I was like, "What is this movie? Why is everyone talking about it?!" and so I did some research and then I saw the name 'John Green'. At first I was like, "John Green? THE John Green from CrashCourse?!" And true enough, it WAS him. So I decided to go to the nearest bookstore in Kuching and bought myself a copy. I guess I was late on the hype train as the book was published in 2012. I only knew John Green a year afterwards through YouTube.

Now here's my opinion regarding the novel. First of all, the title rang a bell somewhere in my consciousness. I felt like I've know the word "The Fault In Our Stars" somewhere but I couldn't identify from where. I kept mumbling the title to myself until I decided to scheme through my bookshelf to find a dialogue in which I have read the title before. Lo and behold, Act 1 Scene 2 'Julius Caesar' by William Shakespeare.

"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars"

Overall this book tells about the story between Hazel and Augustus finding hope when in times of darkness and through that they both also found love. The book is a blend of sweetness, melancholy, humour, and philosophy and to me it stays true to the writer's intention of portraying tragic realism.

However, after finishing this book, I come to realise that the lessons that some may claim you can achieve through the darkest night of the soul reveal most of humanity for the selfish, narcissistic beings we are.

I have come to believe there is a special kind of cruelty behind the perfectly cross stitched 'encouragement'. Those things are for the ones left over trying to make sense of the senseless.

I truly enjoyed the book. It has definitely made me look up to John Green even more now because I aspire to be a writer like him some day.

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This book is worth the read. We summed up that it is indeed, some infinities are bigger than other infinities. We cried. Please read.

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This book uses a central narrator—a first person’s perspective which in this novel, the main character, Hazel Grace Lancaster. This story was all Hazel’s because in the book she was very internal with her life, she uses her very own words, expressing her very own painful-everyday-life. It was very stoking to have her as the narrator of the book because she was very precise and solid with her feelings and was constantly infusing her personality and thoughts into the story that she was narrating. Hazel was definitely a reliable source of information. For instance, she was always detailing telling her audience of the medicines she has to take and what happens and what never happens in support group. She also shares her personal thoughts like going to the support group was never her choice but her parents’ and that she did it just to make them happy. Also, when she was supposed to speak in Gus’s funeral—she folded the papers that was supposed to be her eulogy for him but instead, she spoke her solid feelings out; funerals are not for the dead, it’s for the living.

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The insensitivity of the universe. The book had a repeating refrain that the world is not a wish-granting factory. By means, the things we want do not always come true and that fantasies are hugely different from reality, an illusion that is delusional. There were numerous examples in the story. For example, Isaac’s girlfriend Monica, who broke up with him because she could not barre with the fact that her boyfriend has to go blind. Despite of that, Isaac stood with himself, waiting and hoping that she would come back to him. He never received a single word from her after the break up. Other than that, Augustus realized that he will never get to show some extraordinary feat of heroism due to the cancer that spread all over his body after being few years cancer-free. As much as it broke him, hew wasn’t too sick to know he was refrained from a lot of things and that no matter how hopeful it is, the world is not a wish-granting factory. Also, Hazel had to fathom the fact that her lungs could never heal, and she was only living on borrowed time.

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Indianapolis. The Fault in Our Stars took place in a small town called Indianapolis. However, it is not just a typical Indianapolis where kids go to school and adults go to work, it is an Indianapolis of the sick. The book took place in a hometown where Hazel and her friends would frequently go to places where sick people goes to: the hospital, support group, church, and sometimes other sick friends’ house. The setting is very indoor and stifling because Hazel spent most of her times inside the house, reading the same books and watching the same tv show over and over again as she felt like she was dying and there was no point for her to wander around the town of happy people with a sick-dying-girl—herself. She isolated herself a lot by staying indoor. She even mentioned in the book that she was aware she felt confined in the town: “It was a cloudy day, typical Indiana: the kind of weather that boxes you in.” Even after she met Augustus, they still spent most of the times doing indoor activities like playing board games, reading books and helping a friend out by smashing Gus’s trophies in Gus’s basement bedroom.

Amsterdam. A city of freedom. There are visions of cobblestone streets, canals, bicycles, quaint coffee shops, artists, and of course, romance when the name pops out in our mind. This setting is entirely dissimilar from Indianapolis where everything is confined for Hazel and Augustus. There are no regular check-ups, board games and sitting in the “heart of Jesus” as in the support group that took place in the church’s basement. It was totally a different life for them in Amsterdam. The lovebirds were catapulted into a world where everything was possible for them: a romantic dinner date, sight-seeing Amsterdam and climbing stairs of Anne Frank’s house. Hazel was happily roaming the city of Freedom on her mother’s permission to wander around with Augustus and enjoy their own time there in Amsterdam.

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The Fault in Our Stars is a romantic fiction-based novel for young adults. The novel features Hazel Grace Lancaster, 16-year-old girl who is diagnosed with terminal Thyroid Cancer. Hazel then met Augustus at a support group that she was forced to attend by her doctor and her parents. Augustus on the other hand, has an Osteosarcoma and in the beginning of the novel he was in a remission.

It is a love story that took Hazel Grace to Amsterdam from Indianapolis with her dying-boyfriend Augustus Waters that used his genie-wish for the trip to Amsterdam to meet her favourite author from The Imperial Affliction by Peter Van Houten.

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John Green, or John Michael Green is an American author that has won the 2006 Printz Award for his debut novels, Looking for Alaska, The Fault in Our Stars, The Abundance of Katherine and Paper Towns. He did video blogs on You Tube and also launched the Crash Course channel on You Tube for educational purpose that has helped millions of people!

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Hazel Grace Lancaster is a 16-year-old teenage girl that suffers from terminal thyroid cancer. Because of her cancer, she has to use a portable oxygen tank to breathe properly. She reluctantly attends a cancer-support-group upon her mother’s behest. It was during one of the meetings at the support group that she met Augustus Waters who was there support his mutual friend Isaac who had tumour in one eye that he had removed and now he has to take out the other one as well. After the meeting ended, Augustus approached Hazel who was waiting for her mother to pick her up and told her that she looked like Natalie Portman from V for Vendetta. Augustus invited Hazel over to his house for a movie and while they were at it, they talked about each other’s experience with cancer. Then, Augustus took Hazel home when they decided to exchange book with each other. Augustus gave Hazel, The Prince of Dawn whereas Hazel gave him her favourite book, An Imperial Affliction by Peter Van Houten.

After a week the two had discussed about The Imperial Affliction, Augustus secretly contacted the fellow who wrote the book, Peter Van Houten to ask questions about the ending of the book. However, he only managed to track down his assistant, Lidewij. Hazel sent an e-mail to him asking question about the book. Peter replied to her saying that he could only share what happens after the book if she came to see him personally, in Amsterdam.

Shortly after Augustus invited Hazel for a picnic that he planned where he reveals a charitable foundation that grants wishes of kids with cancer has agreed to grant his: to meet Peter Van Houten in Amsterdam with Hazel Grace. She was thrilled.

In the midst of struggling to plan her trip to Amsterdam, Hazel suffers a serious episode in which her lungs fill with fluid and she goes to the ICU. She left after a few days. He delivers Hazel another letter from Van Houten, this one more personal and more cryptic than the last. After reading the letter, Hazel is more determined than ever to go to Amsterdam. There is a problem though: Her parents and her team of doctors don’t think Hazel is strong enough to travel. The situation seems hopeless until one of the physicians most familiar with her case, Dr. Maria, convinces Hazel’s parents that Hazel must travel because she needs to live her life.

Hazel, Augustus, and Hazel’s mother flew to Amsterdam to live Hazel’s dream and grant Gus’s wish. They finally met Peter Van Houten only to realize that he was a mean-spirited drunk who claims he cannot answer any of Hazel’s questions. In the end, both of them left Peter’s place in disappointment and accompanied by Lediwij. She brought them to tour around Anne Frank’s house where they shared their first kiss there. The following day, Augustus confesses that while Hazel was in the ICU, he had a body scan which revealed his cancer has returned and spread everywhere. When they returned to Indianapolis, Gus’s condition was getting worse each day. He becomes vulnerable and scared. In his final days Augustus arranges a prefuneral for himself, and Isaac and Hazel give eulogies.

Augustus Water died eight days alter in the ICU. During his funeral, Peter came, and Hazel was astonished by it. He came for last respect and to give Hazel a letter that was written by Augustus during his final moments. Hazel cried in her car when she read the letter. She missed him a lot—it broke her.

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The Fault in Our Stars by John Green.