The Fault In Our Stars by John Green

I’m sad to say that this is my first John Green book but within the first 100 pages, I vowed to buy the rest on my e-reader. The main reason I bought it the day it came out was because my friend had pre-ordered a signed copy when it was first announced and had been anxiously awaiting the release date ever since. Mine was a first print so it was also signed. (I got a green JScribble and my friend got an orange one.)

This book is about Hazel, a 16-year-old girl with a tumor who wants nothing more then to watch a entire season of Americas Next Top Model in one day and reread her favorite book, An Imperial Affliction, for the hundredth time. Her parents however insist she go to her weekly Support Group for kids with cancer. Reluctantly she agrees and meets Augusts Waters who changes her life. 

This is an amazing book about how much one person can change someone’s life, no matter how short or long of a time the two people have known each other. I think anyone will like this book and will be able to “feel all the emotions” as John Green said we would. I’ll leave you with the quote that inspired the title:

'The fault, dear Brutus is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings.'-Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (Act 1, scene 2).

~Taylor