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At the very beginning of The Fault in Our Stars, the protagonist, Hazel Grace, makes a metalinguistic comment about her favorite novel: “it’s not a cancer book, because cancer books suck”. John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars indeed is not a book on cancer. It is a romance populated by characters who must face the prospect of death every day. The difference between genres is simple: instead of being dominated by melancholy, the story is primarily touching.
Hazel Grace is a girl with thyroid cancer who during one of her support group meetings encounters a boy who doesn’t hesitate to invite her to watch a movie at his home on the very same day. His name is Augustus [...]