Five Feet Apart

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pero luego volvía esa eterna lucha entre el arriesgarse y tocarse o, sencillamente, seguir viviendo tiempo prestado. It’s a beautiful story about love, friendship, hope, fear, despair, anger, weaknesses and responsibility. Seventeen-year-old Stella spends most of her time in the hospital as a cystic fibrosis patient (CF).

It made me think, feel, and brought so much awareness to what it's like to live with a chronic disease. I remember many times my friend Scott would gasp for breath and you would hear nothing enter his lungs. The only thing that made me continue reading till the end was my own curiosity as to what happens to Stella and Will as CF patients. Now this isn't just because I'm not a big crier; it's also because I just don't understand the point of a story when the primary reason is to make you cry. Yes, there were some similarities to The Fault in Our Stars but I didn't necessarily feel as if Will, Stella, and Poe were masters of sarcasm and wry observations as the characters were in the former.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.

The story is told in alternating perspectives between Stella and Will and both narratives complimented each other really well. The illness is completely sanitized, and the hospital is portrayed as a playground where you can roam around freely and not, uh, a place to get better. Will is just waiting until he turns 18, so he can walk away from the hospital and the drug trial, and live (and die) on his own terms.As they are sixteen-eighteen years old, the writing is simple and to the point, very readable and entertaining. But overall, Five Feet Apart is a fast-paced, emotional, and well-plotted story with some likable characters with some good characters.

Sorry guys, I’m mostly sarcastic cow who pulls pranks on people, laughing at people who falls down (I also laugh at myself when my butt hit the floor. If I take a closer look at the love story between Stella and Will I’ve to say that it worked for me. There are parts of the story that felt clichéd like the somewhat clichéd characters especially Will, the insta-love between the characters, or the slightly predictable ending.

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. It's been said (although the provenance of the quote is questionable) that, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. However, I’m also aware that an equally large number of CFers have raised concerns over the romantization of CF and the novel’s central topic.