I'm going to let these thoughts steep and possibly come back and update this, but my gut reaction upon finishing this is an icky feeling. As a nurse, I've seen a lot of this, but I think it's something regular healthy people don't think much about. One day, Stella is on her way to visit the NICU when she walks past a room and notices someone new, that would be Will Newman. Because your life is so much more than treatments and hospitals and life expectancies no matter your chronic health condition. When they're both in the hospital together, they have to rely on texting, Skype, and talking through surgical masks and from doorways.

I couldn't stand the overdone teenage philosophy of The Fault in Our Stars by John Green or the plot twist of My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult or any of the other similar contemporary stories.Whether it's at a critical 'tragic' moment or just our lead boy watching YouTube videos of our lead girl. They go through highs of deciding to screw the rules and be together (though maintaining the five feet thing using a pool cue), and experiencing what they can within the boundaries of a hospital.

I was going to start off by making a joke about the vine reference 'two bros chilling in a hot tub five feet apart 'cause they're not gay' (remember that vine?For the first time, I feel the weight of every single inch, every single millimeter of the six feet between us. stars (best solution is meeting in the middle because this kind of beautiful story doesn’t deserve to get lower points from me but I have to be fair that the script and performances are so much better than the book. I went into this story completely blind, I recommend doing so because it definitely gives you all the feels not knowing anything until you read it.

But a queer person of colour dies quite randomly from CF complications right after deciding to get back together with the love of their life and that death motivates one of the protagonists to start living for themselves.Reading this you realise this was written only to get money from moviegoers, or teenagers that like to read the book first and then see the movie. RACHAEL LIPPINCOTT delivers an intriguing, emotional, well-plotted and well-written read here with relatable and likeable characters that I couldn’t help but to fall in love with. So far my experience with CF looks different from theirs in some very specific ways: I don’t have a feeding tube, I’m not in need of a lung transplant, and I don’t spend a lot of time in the hospital (all of these things of which I am VERY grateful).

No chances were taken that you would pass on a flu or cold or something worse to a hospitalized CF patient. Stella Grant likes to be in control—even though her totally out of control lungs have sent her in and out of the hospital most of her life.It also doesn’t mean you’re gonna be thinking about your condition and death 24/7, which is something our characters do ALL. Soon, he'll turn eighteen and then he'll be able to unplug all these machines and actually go see the world, not just its hospitals. Knowing that I'd probably cry, I still couldn't stay away from Five Feet Apart, even though the movie adaptation is supposed to be released this weekend, I think. Yes, it will definitely remind you of Fault in Our Stars by John Green but again don't compare it, both of them are unique in their own way. Not to mention the insta-love between Will and Stella, which was probably the root cause of all the wrong things in this book.