Let me just start with ... WOW! I just LOVED this book! The honesty and voice of the narrator was just so refreshing even though the storyline is one that will have you on a teary rollercoaster.
It is the story of Hazel, a 16 year old that has been living with terminal cancer for three years. To make her mother and doctors happy she goes to the Cancer Kid Support Group as usual. Then one day Augustus Waters shows up at the group and then her whole world changes. Augustus is a good looking guy who is in remission after losing his leg to a bone cancer. They quickly fall in love although Hazel feels like she is a "grenade." There bond is formed over a novel about cancer called An Imperial Affliction. (Wish it was a real book, by the way!) This is Hazel's favorite book, which ends very suddenly. It becomes her mission to find out what happened to the characters. After Augustus reads the book he wants to know the same, and actually uses his Wish to take Hazel to Amsterdam to knock on the author's front door. I can't give away much more of the plotline but their story is one that will have you laughing and then crying moments later.
To make this book more interesting the narrator is Hazel speaking in the first person, with raw emotion. There are a lot of insightful quotes in The Fault In Our Stars that really spoke to me where I am at. It will be very tough to beat, but I truly can't wait to get my hands on some more of his books.
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