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->''I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.'' 
--> -- '''Hazel Lancaster'''

''The Fault in Our Stars'' is the fourth solo novel by author JohnGreen, released on January 10th, 2012 . The book focuses on a girl named Hazel Grace Lancaster, who is suffering from terminal cancer and is forced by her parents to attend a support group, where she meets Augustus Waters, a boy in remission from cancer.

Before the book was released, it reached #1 on the Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble bestseller lists in June 2011, shortly after its title was announced. Barnes & Noble had accidentally released more than a thousand copies prematurely, however, the fandom vowed not to spoil the book for those who had not received copies.

A blog where John answers questions about TFIOS is currently available [[http://onlyifyoufinishedtfios.tumblr.com/ here]] for anyone who has finished reading the book, and [[SeriousBusiness only for people who have finished the book.]] (It is no longer password-protected, although one still runs a high risk of major spoilers.)
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!!Tropes present in ''The Fault In Our Stars'' include:
* AGoodNameForARockBand: The Hectic Glow, a band "so beautifully underground that they don't even exist".
* ArtificialLimbs: Augustus has a prosthetic leg due to his osteosarcoma. 
* BaldWomen: Augustus compares Hazel to NataliePortman due to her hair.
* TheBigDamnKiss: [[spoiler: Hazel and Augustus, in front of a crowd of tourists, ''in the Anne Frank house''.]]
* BlackComedy: In spades. Hazel and Augustus's jokes about how Augustus is so handsome he literally blinded Isaac and "took Hazel's breath away." Also, Isaac's eulogy for [[spoiler: Augustus]] at the "prefuneral."
* BavarianFireDrill: When Monica's mom finds [[spoiler:Gus, Hazel, and Issac egging her daughter's car.]]
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler: Peter Van Houten,]] for Augustus and Hazel.
* DangerTakesABackSeat: [[spoiler: Peter Van Houten scares Hazel when he pops up in the back of her parents' van.]] 
* [[spoiler: DeadManWriting: Hazel and Lidewij track down Augustus' last letter to Van Houten, which turns out not to be the sequel to "An Imperial Affliction" but his eulogy for Hazel.]]
* [[spoiler: DeathByNewberyMedal: C'mon...it's a book about two teenagers with cancer who fall in love. How did you ''not'' know how this was going to end?]]
** Though to Green's credit it's a hell of a lot more sincere and deep than the typical usage of the trope.
* DisabledLoveInterest: Augustus in Hazel's view, see ArtificialLimbs above.
* DisabledSnarker: Both Hazel and Augustus are pretty talented snarkers.
** Isaac seems to be an example of this as well, especially after his surgery.
* FictionalCounterpart: The Genie Foundation, which grants [[http://www.wish.org/ wishes]] to cancer patients. Also, Free Catch All (Craigslist).
* FictionalDocument: "An Imperial Affliction". 
* GallowsHumor
* GlassEye: Isaac has one, at first.
** Anna's mother in "An Imperial Affliction".
* IllGirl: Hazel was diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer at age 13, with tumors in her lungs.
* {{Jumping on a Grenade}}: Augustus enjoys doing this in video games to save the fictional schoolchildren. In a more poetic sense, [[spoiler: when Hazel doesn't want him to love her because she is a "grenade" and her death will hurt him, he does anyways.]]
* [[spoiler: KilledMidSentence: Anna in ''An Imperial Affliction'', which ends right in the middle of a]]
* LiteraryAllusionTitle: The title refers to a line from WilliamShakespeare's JuliusCaesar: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings."
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: played straight with Augustus Waters as a gender-inverted example, not only drawing Hazel out of her slump but helping her realize her dreams before the end.
* NerdsAreSexy: One of Augustus's main reasons for pursuing Hazel.
** More like "Extremely Philosophical People" are sexy. 
* [[spoiler: PrematureEulogy: for Augustus and Hazel.]]
** Not quite a straight example of this trope in either case, as [[spoiler:everyone knows neither of them are dead when they have the “prefuneral” for Augustus—who actually does end up dying days later—or when Gus and Van Houten write a eulogy for Hazel]].
* ReclusiveArtist: Peter Van Houten, much to Hazel's dismay. 
* RefugeInAudacity: Gus' speech to Monica's mom after [[spoiler: she catches him, Hazel and Isaac egging Monica's car, actually getting her to leave them alone to finish their vandalism.]]
--> [[spoiler: "Ma'am, your daughter's car has just been deservedly egged by a blind man. Please close the door and go back inside or we'll be forced to call the police.]]
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Played for laughs in this exchange. 
--> '''Augustus''': But can I help my own deadly beauty?
--> '''Hazel''': You cannot.
--> '''Augustus''': It is my burden, this beautiful face.
* ShoutOut: At one point Augustus muses that it would be awesome to fly in a super fast jet that could follow the sun; John's admitted to being a fan of PhineasAndFerb, and this was the plot of their first special.
* {{Star Crossed Lovers}}: Hazel refers to Augustus and herself as this several times, most notably in her [[spoiler: eulogy at the prefuneral]]. 
--> Hazel mentions that you say thank you a lot in a hospital (think ocular impairment) and an art museum where a Himalayan creature of his affection is employed (look over there!). 
* StealthPun: The "blinding" of Isaac
** Unintended, according to John Green. 
* TakeThat: When Hazel describes [[spoiler: having sex with Augustus for the first time, she mentions that "[[Literature/{{Twilight}} no headboards were broken".]]]]
* TheAlcoholic: [[spoiler: Peter Van Houten]]
* TheFilmOfTheBook: There will be one.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Kind of played straight, kind of subverted, with [[spoiler: Augustus.]] 
** Mostly played straight [[spoiler: at the funeral]]. 
*** The Fault in Our Stars kind of deconstructs the majority of illness tropes. 
*** Augustus even alludes to this on page 173. "Like, are you familiar with the trope of the stoic and determined cancer victim who heroically fights her cancer with inhuman strength and never complains or stops smiling even at the very end, et cetera?" 
** "According to the conventions of this genre, [[spoiler: he]] kept [[spoiler: his]] sense of humor until the end, did not for a moment waiver in [[spoiler: his]] courage, and [[spoiler: his]] spirit soared like an indomitable eagle until the world itself could not contain [[spoiler: his]] joyous soul. But this was the truth..."
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