The Fault in Our Stars:
Book and Movie review
The fault in our stars (2012) is amongst a few teen romance novels that besides being romantic also make sense.
We also have its movie adaptation released in 2014, for the people who are too lazy to read.
Here's is the link for the video review of the book and the movie.
The Storyline:
Hazel and Gus met in a support group where Gus kept staring at Hazel who reminded him of his ex-girlfriend Caroline, who died due to brain cancer.
Skipping the details, they fall in love and everyone's happy.
BUT!
.
Moving forward, Gus uses his wish granted to him by the Genie foundation (as he too is a survivor of cancer, Osteosarcoma)
to take Hazel on a trip to meet her favorite author, Peter. She is obsessed with a book, An Imperial Affliction, written by this author and keeps reading it again and again.
Now, when they arrive at Amsterdam to meet Peter, he turns out to be an Asshole and they are disappointed.
But their trip is not ruined. They then go to Anne Frank's museum where they make out. They're a couple again and everyone's happy again.
And there's one more but.
Augustus dies!
Not to be misunderstood. The book is not about people dying due to having a terminal but about people living in spite of having terminal cancer!
The depiction of people trying to live their lives is unmatchable and the emotions depicted from Hazel's perspective never seemed fake.
Quotes from the book:
As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.
You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.
Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
What a slut time is. She screws everybody.
The marks humans leave are too often scars.
Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.
Pain demands to be felt.
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