Sun Summoner

The Fault in Our Stars is the sixth novel by author John Green, published in January 2012. The title is inspired by Act 1, Scene 2 of Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar, in which the nobleman Cassius says to Brutus: “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”

The story is narrated by Hazel Grace Lancaster, a 16-year-old girl with cancer. Hazel is forced by her parents to attend a support group where she subsequently meets and falls in love with 17-year-old Augustus Waters, an ex-basketball player and amputee. The author takes all the teen angst that is usually seen in novels like this and puts it in perspective. Green helps you understand the characters and tells you, if you were in their place, you’d probably feel the same way too. The book encompasses the hope that even though the fight (life in general) is on most days hard as hell, there is always the will to fight.