On January 29, the first official movie trailer for author John Green’s unbelievably popular young adult novel The Fault in Our Stars was released. This extremely admired love story by John Green was published about two years ago in January of 2012, and shortly after became immensely popular and developed a wide readership. Receiving the number one place on the bestseller lists of Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble, The Fault in Our Stars reached a popularity that John Green had never fully expected. Seven weeks in a row, his novel was placed #1 on The New York Times Best Seller list for the Children’s Chapter Books category and was also the New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice as well as achieving the #1 spot on The Wall Street Journal Best Seller list.
Receiving 4.5 out of 5 stars, The Fault in Our Stars is a beautiful, tear jerking, and touching novel narrated by a sixteen year old girl with cancer named Hazel Grace Lancaster. Diagnosed at just thirteen years old with stage 4 thyroid cancer, Hazel copes with her disease by relying on her dosages of an experimental cancer medication called Phalanxifor. Hazel is obliged by her parents to attend a cancer support group which she is reluctant to go to at first, but this ironically happens to be where she meets another cancer patient named Isaac who introduces her to his best friend and amputee Augustus or “Gus” Waters. Hazel and Augustus begin spending a great deal of time together and fall in love, but their looming health issues threaten their relationship and lead to an unexpected, tragic, yet deeply touching ending.
Many are very excited for this movie to be released in theatres and are anticipating a very emotional teary time while watching the film. The release date is June 6th, 2014 and the movie will feature Shailene Woodley (who is best known for her role on the ABC family television series The Secret Life of the American Teenager) as Hazel and Ansel Elgort as Augustus.
There’s still time to pick up John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars if you haven’t already to enthrall yourself in his novel and look forward to this upcoming movie!