The Fault in Our Stars The Fault in Our Stars The Fault in Our Stars, published in January 2012, is the sixth novel by author John Green. The title is inspired by Act 1, Scene 2 of Shakespeare's play "Julius Caesar", in which the nobleman Cassius says to Brutus: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings." The story is narrated by Hazel Grace Lancaster, a 16-year-old girl with thyroid cancer that has affected her lungs. Hazel is forced by her parents to attend a support group where she subsequently meets and falls in love with
The Fault in Our Stars the plot of "The Fault in Our Stars" was described as "mawkish at best, exploitative at worst" and the book was characterized as belonging to the "sick-lit" young adult genre, together with other young-adult novels such as "Never Eighteen" and "Before I Die". This entire genre, as well as the genre of young-adult novels dealing with suicide and self-harm (the piece mentions "Thirteen Reasons Why", "By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead", "The Lovely Bones", and "Red Tears") was criticized as being "distasteful" and inappropriate for their target audience of teens. "The Guardian" criticized the piece, pointing out