Now a Major Motion PictureTODAY Book Club. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (Penguin, £7. Fault in Our Stars by John Green available in Trade Paperback on, also read synopsis and reviews. No doubt in the end you will cry but you will also feel that you have discovered a little something about living. Review of The Fault in Our Stars by John Green Posted on by rhapsodyinbooks This is a book about some teenagers with cancer, but it is not at all a sob story. It is impossible not to root for Hazel and Augustus and laugh with them as they search out the reclusive author, while the inevitability of death gets ever closer. Rather than depressing, the book is filled with dark humour and is written with a beautiful simplicity that draws the reader in so deeply that it’s not just the twists and turns but the gentle bends and curves that you feel tugging at your emotions.

John Green brilliantly captures the voices of a young generation while instilling it with the wisdom of a life that has lived too much yet will never live enough. The banality and beauty of the American teen (the shopping, the video games and the first tentative steps of love) are set against the constant friction of a life aware of its limits.Īt its heart The Fault In Our Stars is a love story but there is no saccharine sweetness to be had in the harsh realities of cancer treatment.

The fault in our stars book review