This week I'm waiting on The Fault In Our Stars by John Green. Well, not just this week, but ever since it was announced. But this week its distinct and fabulously simple cover was unveiled, and my pre-ordered copy seems so far away...Diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer at 12, Hazel was prepared to die until, at 14, a medical miracle shrunk the tumours in her lungs... for now.
Two years post-miracle, sixteen-year-old Hazel is post-everything else, too post-high school, post-friends and post-normalcy. And even though she could live for a long time (whatever that means), Hazel lives tethered to an oxygen tank, the tumours tenuously kept at bay with a constant chemical assault.
Enter Augustus Waters. A match made at cancer kid support group, Augustus is gorgeous, in remission, and shockingly to her, interested in Hazel. Being with Augustus is both an unexpected destination and a long-needed journey, pushing Hazel to re-examine how sickness and health, life and death, will define her and the legacy that everyone leaves behind.
[Synopsis by Goodreads]
The Fault In Our Stars is being released by Dutton on the 10th of January, 2012.
