The Fault In Our Stars is written by John Green, and I chose this book because I love romantic books.

It is so obvious that Hazel isn't the “normal” teenage girl from Indianapolis. She is always speaking too old for her age, as we see when she's compared to her friend Kaitlyn. By comparison, Hazel is more thoughtful and mindful about her actions then Kaitlyn, and she is far more logical. One thing Hazel really wants to do is go to Amsterdam to meet her favorite author. He wrote her favorite book called “An Imperial Affliction” which is about a girl who has cancer, just like her. She loves watching Americas next top model and sitting around and hanging out. Physically speaking, towards the end of the book we witness Hazel grow weaker. For example, we see her use the staircase at the beginning of the book and at the end she uses the elevator, and her physical condition deteriorates. Hazel is scared that when she dies, which wasn’t far away, her death will impact so many people and she hates hurting people, so she tried not to get too close with anyone. It makes her, as she puts it, a “grenade.” This fear appears most in relation to her mother. Once, when Hazel was near dying, she overheard her mother saying “If Hazel dies I won't be a mother anymore” and that thought has stuck with Hazel. This fear stays with her and makes her wonder what happens at the end of An Imperial Affliction. She “needs” to make sure that everything worked out so she doesn’t have to worry so much about her parents.

16-year-old Hazel Grace Lancaster is the protagonist in the story because she has thyroid cancer that has spread to her lungs so she has to wheel around an oxygen tank with her wherever she goes. She attends a cancer patients support group where she meets a 17-year-old boy names Augustus Waters, whose osteosarcoma caused him to lose his leg. Hazel and Augustus start hanging out a lot and found things that interested them both. They end up falling in love and doing everything together. She says, “ I fell in love the way you fall asleep; slowly then all at once.” He becomes interested in her favorite book and he wants to use his “wish” on her and take her to Amsterdam to visit her favorite author to find out how the book ends, since she used her wish on Disney when she was younger.

This story takes place in Indianapolis where Hazel lives and some of it takes place in Amsterdam where Hazel, her mother, and Augustus go to meet the author of her favorite book. When they go there to meet him they find out that he wasn’t what they expected him to be. He was a big drinker and he was really rude. He didn’t want to talk about the book and how it ended and he wanted them to leave and was “making fun” of cancer.

I believe the central theme that the author is trying to tell us that we should be thankful for our health and thankful for what we have because some people aren’t as fortunate as us. I believe he also just wants to tell a romantic and interesting story about a teenage girl with cancer and how she pulls herself through it and still lives life to the fullest for the time being that she has left.

The author’s tone in this story is usually always good she stays positive most of the time and doesn’t seem to care about a lot.

Even though Hazel thinks she’s the “grenade” she ends up being wrong and Augustus becomes it. She doesn’t regret falling in love with him even though she knows its going to be extremely hard for her when he dies but she cherishes the moments and time she has with him until he passes away.

If you are interested in romantic books with a little bit of action and humor The Fault In Our Stars is the perfect book for you. It keeps you hanging and hooked throughout the entire book and it has its ways of flipping things to make things seem very unexpected.