Five Feet Apart is now a major motion picture on Netflix starring Cole Sprouse (Riverdale's Jughead) and Haley Lu Richardson (The Edge of Seventeen and Recovery Road)!

One thing I continue to struggle with understanding is why reality is not enough for these types of books? Graceling and Daughter of the Forest both come to mind when I think of amazing love stories that develop in spite of the challenges and plot in the story; instead of the love developing because of the plot. Stella 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. But people die for various reasons and I speak from experience here when I say that everyone has to decide if it’s worth to take that risk or not.It's unbelievable to me that our teens are constantly enjoying pudding and milkshakes; yet no one discusses the nutritional issues that CF usually comes with. Estos dos son chicos tremendamente maduros para su edad, pues han tenido que encargarse de su enfermedad desde que tienen memoria. 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. So I guess I’ll do something interesting I’ll give three stars to this book after watching movie but I’m giving five stars to the script ( and also entire casting won my heart and earned their ten stars) and I will give 3. 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.

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. On the one hand I think it’s important to raise awareness for diseases like CF and on the other hand I know that a kind of forbidden love sob story might not be the right way to do so.For the first time, I feel the weight of every single inch, every single millimeter of the six feet between us. While masks play a role in Five Feet Apart they sure do seem to be conveniently left behind a good 80% of the time.

So, yeah, it seems CF is finally getting the treatment as an illness to be exploited for feel-good media that cancer has been enduring since the 70s and Segal’s Love Story. When talking about things that irked me the wrong way, I am in debt with Gunnar Esiason and Elsie Tellier for their analyses on the premise of Five Feet Apart, which have educated me a lot on the matter.This is a rare example in which both partners are manic pixie dream girls/boys to each other, changing their partner’s outlook and making them better people/enjoy life more EVEN THOUGH THEY’VE KNOWN EACH OTHER FOR SOME WEEKS! I know next to nothing about Cystic Fibrosis and it was so interesting to read about these two kids struggling but coping in different ways. They are described as out of breath and coughing but no description of the ick factor that is so common for those with CF. Can't say I'm surprised I didn't enjoy this book but it was part of my "Goodreads Reading Challenge" so I did it. I know Claire Wineland was a great help in the making of this story and I know many CFers are grateful for the representation in media.

Can't really say much about the plot itself because nothing happened (which is fair, I only read like 80 pages). and although this story does touch on that message, that is surprisingly not why i enjoyed this book.Even a nurse doing it to another patient or a parent or friend asking if they can help could have happened. They always made sure that the other was alright and even when they were angry at each other they still tried to find a way to talk it out. Will has been in and out of hospitals all over the world, and he's tired of it all, especially his mother's single-minded crusade to help him beat a dangerous bacterial infection. Anyway, you can read the synopsis anywhere so I won't even bother explaining the story because well, you know, I do not want to.