Five Feet Apart

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The story might be considered to be a little bit corny or cliche for some but for me I totally fell for it and devoured it in two sittings. 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? I thought long and hard about how to review “Five Feet Apart” and to be entirely honest I still haven’t found an answer. Stella and Will both have Cystic Fibrosis, Will has also recently contracted B Cepacia, which means his lungs are even more delicate than others; and he can easily pass this bacteria to other patients.

La lucha que tiene Will consigo mismo y con la bacteria que le impide ser candidato a un transplante me rompía el corazón. Stella finds out that Will is NOT doing his treatments, she decides to download the app that she created on Will's phone, Stella and Will facetime everyday to take their medicine together. In this moving story that’s perfect for fans of John Green, Nicola Yoon, David Levithan and Jenny Han, two teens fall in love with just one minor complication - they can’t get within five feet of each other without risking their lives. I really liked the characters (the side characters were also great) and even though the ending was corny as all hell, I thought it was a solid read.

Each and every person with CF experiences this disease in our own way, from its severity to our symptoms, to how we feel about the disease and its impact on our lives. So I could be in left-field here (however I take anxiety drugs and have a chronic pain condition, so I'm doubting much has changed); but anytime you have many drugs involved in your system there are side effects. Sometimes I thought the panic must be worse for him than the lack of breath as the panic exacerbated things every time. Now a major motion picture on Netflix starring Cole Sprouse (Riverdale's Jughead) and Haley Lu Richardson (The Edge of Seventeen and Recovery Road)!

When it comes to Stella however, he stops rebelling, and begins to see that he can live his life and have more of it by keeping up with his treatments. What if Will and Stella could steal back just a little bit of the space their broken lungs have stolen from them? 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.And even this is arguable because let’s face it, other than falling in love with each other Stella and Will never did anything that would have threatened their lives.

There are other characters like Poe, the feisty Barb, the pregnant Julie, friends of Stella’s and Will’s, and all are wonderful. As their friendship deepens into something more intense, they face more obstacles than they can handle. I could understand Poe’s fear of a normal relationship, because no matter how much you want to sugarcoat it, in the end his boyfriend would have always had to deal with CF too.She's a big fan of to-do lists (she loves crossing things off) and she hosts her own video series about CF on YouTube. To read this book felt like watching the movie and even though they were both good I still think that I liked the movie better. In this moving story, two teens fall in love with just one minor complication—they can’t get within five feet of each other without risking their lives. It also doesn’t mean you’re gonna be thinking about your condition and death 24/7, which is something our characters do ALL.

If I take a closer look at the love story between Stella and Will I’ve to say that it worked for me. 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.

While masks play a role in Five Feet Apart they sure do seem to be conveniently left behind a good 80% of the time. And his death is used as a prop to make the main character have a sudden, deep realization about her life. Originally from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, she currently resides in Pittsburgh with her wife and their dog, Hank.