Five Feet Apart

I have a child with CF, and I bought this book because of all the hype that I was hearing regarding it. Yes there are some things they stretch regarding CF but I believe it just highlights and raises awareness for this horrible disease that we so need. Worth the read, and my 17 yr old son with CF enjoyed it also. (My son is waiting for a double lung and possibly heart transplant, this is a very scary time in his life, this book helped him feel not so alone, CFers can not “hang out” with each other so it makes for a very lonely disease)

So... The Hard cover's paper slip cover is really odd. When you touch it, it leaves finger prints from the oils in your skin making contact with the type of paper or ink the cover has, but they're removable by rubbing a cloth in a circular motion over them so that's good! In all absolute honesty. I've read so many reviews on this book about how it will "send a negitive message to children with cystic Fibrosis to risk death for love" but as a 18 year old senior in highschool with Cystic Fibrosis, I can tell you I didn't not get that "negitive message" at all. When I read this book, it reminded me that I don't have to live everyday day-by-day I can have a life. If I stay healthy, I can a better life than I could have imagined. I reminded me the importance of family and to treat the subject of my Cystic Fibrosis and inevitable death (although everyones death is inevitable) carefully. That I effect more people than I think and that they worry about my Cystic Fibrosis and loosing me more than I fear it myself sometimes. I reminded me that I am worth of love, I am worthy of my family, I am worthy of my friends, and I am worth of a full, healthy(ish) life. I HIGHLY recommend this book to all teenagers, and young adults. I did cry ALOT during this book and it did stir up many emotions, but in the end, they were emotions that needed to be a little stired and retouched. I love this book and I couldn't recommend it more than I do ❤️(Also added pictures of book without cover for my fellow book worms who like the authenticity of a fresh plain backed book, love you guys!)

A novel about teenagers with Cystic Fibrosis? When I was a teenager in the fifties, there was Ellen, a girl in my school who had “something wrong with her lungs”. I remember her coughing, sometimes breathing noisily and sitting on the bench when the rest of us had PE. I remember the adults whispering “So sad” and “She’ll die young”. We stayed away. Maybe death was infectious. Ellen died soon after I graduated. That’s when I found out that it was cystic fibrosis that killed her.Now 60 years later I read about Stella, Will and Poe, normal teenagers, except there is nothing normal about their lives. They are in a hospital struggling to stay alive. The center of the novel is a love story. Stella and Will fall in love for the first time in their lives and grapple with the fact that it can be fatally dangerous to touch each other. But it’s also a story about friendship and it’s these friendships that are deeply moving: the friendship between Stella and Poe, who have spent months and months of their lives in adjoining hospital rooms, between Stella and her friends Mya and Camilla, who come to plan for their senior trip, which Stella won’t be able to attend, between Will and his friends Jason and Hope, who get an hour of private time in Will’s hospital room, and finally between Poe and his friend and lover Michael, who Poe pushes away because he doesn’t want him to get hurt. These friendships are special because they have nothing to do with pitying a person with a fatal disease. They are friends because they are important to each other. I love the kids and their story and I hope that there never will be another Ellen, who is an outsider because people are afraid that she’ll die on them.

Prepare for a rant with spoilers for Five Feet Apart (and Everything, Everything):I should preface this by saying that I do suffer from chronic illness, none of which as deadly as cystic fibrosis, but when I saw that there was a YA romance novel about chronic illness, even if it's not one that I have, I was ecstatic for representation. (I suffer from interstitial cystitis, fibromyalgia, joint hypermobility syndrome, and hypotonia, to name the main conditions -- there's a few more that I don't deal with daily but still affect me.)I had semi-high expectations for this book. Everyone was saying, "It's so much better than The Fault in Our Stars!" But this follows the same plot device of Everything, Everything: Risk everything for love. In Everything, Everything, our main character with SCID that makes her allergic to everything decides she'd rather go to Hawaii with her teenage boyfriend than live. At all. But it's alright because it turns out she wasn't sick at all and her mom just has Munchausen by proxy (which is such a trope, especially when that's like the only portrayal of SCID in fiction).So my one request for Five Feet Apart was that it not romanticize cystic fibrosis because it is a horrifying condition and that it not have the trope of "risk everything for love". I wanted Stella and Will to find the motivation to live for each other through each other (or for the recently deceased Poe). Stella gets a notification that her new lungs are coming in and she says "Screw it!" AND KISSES HER TEENAGE BOYFRIEND WHO HAS A DEADLY VIRUS THAT WILL KILL HER AND KEEP HER FROM GETTING A TRANSPLANT.I was ready to finish this book tonight. I was ready to go buy a ticket to see it in the dollar theater. One of my favorite (late) celebrities, Claire Wineland, apparently helped make this movie as accurate as possible before she passed. I wanted to see it for her. But if it's going to be supporting this unhealthy narrative, I absolutely refuse. Unless someone who has read the book or seen the movie can message me and tell me "It gets better don't stop now," I'm not reading another page.I AM SICK AND TIRED OF BEING TOLD THAT I SHOULD BE HAPPY TO DIE FOR LOVE THAN TAKE CARE OF MY BODY DUE TO MY CHRONIC ILLNESS. I know that my conditions are nowhere near the level of torture (or fatality) of cystic fibrosis, but I think this sends an awful message to teens reading this with CF hoping to find the motivation to keep going, that if they fall in love, they should just not really care about how much longer they live.Being chronically ill does not mean that your life is not worth living. Your life is worth living. Make lists. Do your treatments. Take your meds. Make sure you live long enough to do everything on your bucket list. And don't throw it away for some teenage relationship that will inevitably end. Take it from someone that got engaged in 9th grade, those never last.Goodbye, Five Feet Apart. I wasted my money, my time, and my hope that you would be a good book about chronic illness.Also it's the gay Hispanic kid that dies, because of course he does.

Five Feet Apart was a beautiful story of love, loss and fighting for your life.Being a person with a chronic illness, I related to this book on so many levels. I related to Will and his wish to see the world instead of succumbing to his illness AND I related to Stella and her wish to keep living.I know my previous review on Goodreads said that it broke my heart, and it did. But not because it had a sad ending. No, it wasn't that at all. It broke my heart because it was too beautiful to be true, and I loved it for that. The ending was so hopeful, so... good.I cried, sure. I cried a lot, but not at the end. Because unlike ALL the books I've read with characters who have chronic illnesses, neither of them died in this one. The story ended with a hopeful epilogue, and that's what made me give that ❤️ (heart) in my rating.If I could, I'd make everyone read this book, but since I can't Imperio everyone, I am just going to have to request you nicely to please go read it 🤨

As a CFer, this book really touched me, and expressed a lot of my emotions and experiences so well!Now I have something to share with others that can show the good and hard sides of living with CF. Thank you!

I don't even know where to begin with this book! I'm going to keep this review short and sweet; I could ramble on forever about the entire storyline, but it would give away so many damn spoilers, so I'm going to keep it safe instead.
I kept seeing the comment 'If you loved The Fault In Our Stars, read this!' being thrown around in regards to this book, and normally I hate those sort of comments. I feel it either raises your expectations of the new book too much, or it comes across as just trying too hard to piggyback the hype from one books success onto another (See the 654872594 books that were advertised as 'If you loved Girl On The Train...').
That being said, the comment actually rang true for this one. I loved TFIOS, as heartbreaking as I found it, and this book had the same effect on me. It was an emotional roller coaster, I found myself so invested in the main characters from the very beginning, rooting for them and their seemingly doomed romance.
Stella and Will couldn't be more different if they tried, in the beginning. Stella being a complete control freak, her days dictated by her precious to-do lists and her neatly organised medications. Will wanting nothing more than to ignore his own diagnosis and just get out in the world, away from hospitals and treatments, and explore everything he feels he has been missing. Watching them come together and grow as people was wonderful, it made me wish the book was twice the length it actually was, just so I could read about more of their antics, more of their stolen little moments.
The other thing I absolutely love about this book, is the way it was written with such sensitivity. Following the lives of CF patients, it shows that true research went into this story, it wasn't guess work and it wasn't just thrown together. I think it is so important that writers make the effort to do correct research, speak to people suffering from the illnesses or conditions they choose to include in their stories. Double check that they haven't included anything (however unintentionally) offensive or problematic. Chronic illnesses and disabilities can be a minefield for these things, it's just so lovely to see a story done right.

Everything was properly packed! I loved it. I'm an avid book reader and i frequently order books from here .This book is really wonderful which shows the struggles of the boy and girl. I have previously read The fault in our stars and had been mah fav. Five feet apart will be added to that list too.

There has been a strange trend in YA literature over the past few years that focus on terminal illnesses. This often leaves me feeling confused. Partly because I feel that books and literature should be escapism from life but the greater part of me thinks that without literature people, especially young adults, are not exposed to bigger, more important subjects.Exposure is exactly what the reader will get with Five Feet Apart. It is the story of Stella and Will and their battle with Cystic Fibrosis. It chronicles the daily battle with the life limiting disease and also the isolation that comes with having it. Imagine having something in common with a small set of people but not being able to be close to those people because it could kill you. It must be so lonely.I was quite moved by this story. It was uplifting and heartbreaking and funny all in one go. I was consumed by this story and was bereft when it ended.Five Feet Apart by Rachel Lippincott is available now.