The Rise of the “Sick Teens in Love” GenreĪs you may recall, The Fault in Our Stars tells the story of Hazel and Gus, two high-schoolers with cancer who embark on a star-crossed romance. In celebration of the book’s tenth anniversary, here are the biggest effects that TFIOS has had on our lives a decade out. Yet thanks to some clever marketing and stellar reviews, a hit it became, and the world hasn’t been the same since. TFIOS wasn’t a guaranteed hit - far from it. Of course a YA romance about star-crossed teens would do well! Of course the endlessly quotable, social-media-savvy John Green would become a celebrity! Of course Hollywood would green-light a movie based on the book three weeks after its debut! But back at the start of 2012, the “sick teen” genre barely existed, Green was just a decently popular author known best for his vlogs, and theaters were filled with movies about supernatural kids, not super-unlucky ones. Within the year, there’d be special editions, nearly a million copies printed, and the announcement of a highly anticipated movie adaptation, not to mention a fan base of readers larger and more passionate than the book world had seen since perhaps Twilight.Ī decade after its release, the success of TFIOS seems obvious.
1 on the New York Times best-seller list, where it would stay for months.
The sixth book from John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, debuted January 10 at No. January, 2012: Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol reigned at the box office, a new show called Girls premiered on HBO, Lana Del Rey told us we were Born to Die … and a young-adult novel about two kids with cancer falling in love became a massive sensation.
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