So maybe there's not a new formula at work so much as a gender swap. Come to think of it, Augustus is pretty damn hot. There is a road trip Augustus, whose greatest fear is not of death but that his life won't amount to anything, uses his "Genie Foundation" wish to take Hazel to Amsterdam to meet the author of her favorite book. The connection is instant, and a (doomed) romance blossoms. In an effort to get her to have a life (she withdrew from school at 13), her parents insist she attend a support group at a local church, which Hazel characterizes in an older-than-her-years voice as a "rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness." Despite Hazel's reluctant presence, it's at the support group that she meets Augustus Waters, a former basketball player who has lost a leg to cancer. Narrator Hazel Grace Lancaster, 16, is (miraculously) alive thanks to an experimental drug that is keeping her thyroid cancer in check. His fourth novel departs from that successful formula to even greater success: this is his best work yet. Green has yet again stunned the literary community with this tragically reflective story and it is truly a worthy achievement by itself.If there's a knock on John Green (and it's more of a light tap considering he's been recognized twice by the Printz committee) it's that he keeps writing the same book: nerdy guy in unrequited love with impossibly gorgeous girl, add road trip.
The emotional intimacy of the novel leaves you questioning everything about life the purpose, the point and the proceeding. Swamped with tears and heartbreak, the story never fails to baffle readers with beautiful writing and deep undercurrents of meaning. While the novel often felt pretentious, it is overshadowed by the interesting dynamic of the protagonists pragmatism to the love interests idealism. Crafting an eloquent story if not with a touch of poignancy, Green deftly touches on the delicate issue of cancer while still communicating messages of hope, perseverance and life not being about how many breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away. The Fault in Our Stars is an incredibly powerful and thoughtful novel following the conceptual trace of life, loss and the legacy of death.
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