The Fault in our Stars by John Green

"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings."

Hazel Grace Lancaster is sixteen years old. She has terminal cancer and has been diagnosed with clinical depression. She goes to support group for other kids with cancer. It is there she meets Augustus Waters, who had osteosarcoma. They bond over a book, The Imperial Affliction, written by Peter Van Houten. The book ends mid sentence, so Augustus writes to the author and asks him what happens after the story ends. Van Houten then answers that he couldn't tell them in a letter, that they must come to Amsterdam (where he lives), and that he will tell them there.

So they travel to Amsterdam. They find that Peter Van Houten won't tell them anything and that he is very rude and offensive. Hazel and Augustus go back to their hotel, where he tell her that he has a tumor. He knows that he is dying.

When they get back to the States, Augustus asks Hazel and their friend Isaac to have a prefuneral, so that he can watch it. He dies eight days later.

Augustus always told Hazel that one day he would write an epilogue An Imperial Affliction.

The Fault in our Stars was sad, but it was also something more. It was something special.