Five Feet Apart

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As they are sixteen-eighteen years old, the writing is simple and to the point, very readable and entertaining. She is also a good friend, and desperate to make her parents happy, and she is all-round a lovable character. 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 could say it’s unrealistic that two people with CF fall in love, I could say that the reality of living with CF was romanticized by the MCs love story. Instead Lord addresses the intricacies and messiness of mortality in a genuine and heartwarming way.with happiness and joy and loss and heartbreak in it, a beautiful love story between two people who can't even get close enough to touch one another. I guess that’s due to the fact that there is a lot of time passing in the movie and scenes just fade out while the book makes it a habit to continue with the story without the benefit of having those fade out moments.

Will has been to different hospitals around the world, but never actually got to see anything up close because the hospital always separated him from the outside world. We don’t see any of the various digestive side affects of CF (apart from issues with a G tube) and we don’t see instances in which CF makes our characters look “ugly” or, well, sick.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. I don't know as well as I do know why I kept comparing this one with The Fault in Our Stars movie (sorry to say that I haven't read the book by John Green yet, forgive me) and yes, somehow it reminded me of Turtles All The Way Down by John Green here and there. I found the development of their love extremely fast, considering Stella’s coldness towards him in the beginning, but perhaps given their situation it would be quick to develop? In one week Will turns eighteen, and then he'll be able to unplug himself from all these machines and actually go see the world, not just the hospitals.

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. As a nurse, I've seen a lot of this, but I think it's something regular healthy people don't think much about. Though the health issues involved are totally different, set in different surroundings I just couldn't help comparing this one with that movie and that book as I kept on reading. They are described as out of breath and coughing but no description of the ick factor that is so common for those with CF. In Five Feet Apart our teens do all of the following: run up and down 3-5 flights of stairs, laugh, swim, cry and a multitude of other things.I remember days where Scott would tell us the side effects of the drugs were wearing him down faster than his limited breathing. I’m aware that opinions tend to differ when it comes to books like this one and there will always be as many pros as cons. Learning that this book is already being made into a movie I just had to watch the trailer and I know that it is a movie that I am definitely putting on my list of movies to watch. Will, a reckless boy also suffering from CF, is doing his best to stir up problems and refuse to take his meds.